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Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms

post #1 of 6
5/3/08 at 8:38am
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Erik Youngdahl and Michelle Garcia share a dorm room at Connecticut's Wesleyan University. But they say there's no funny business going on. Really. They mean it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/...T172ieg4MDW7oF

I don't much care for the idea of my dds doing this. However, they'll be over 18 and living on their own then, so what I am going to do? Ground them? I guess if the guy was gay, it would be okay. It's still weird to me though.
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post #2 of 6
5/3/08 at 10:08am

Re: Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms

If I had kids I wouldn't want them to do that either. Colleges have really changed (some of them). The college I went to use to have separate dorms..those for men and those for women. They did have apartments on campus for married students. Then not too long after I graduated they made one or two of the dorms coed..not coed rooms but there were men and women living in the same dorm. That wouldn't have been any different than living in an apartment building off campus.

So I kind of saw this coming and am not surprised to hear about coed dorm rooms.
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post #3 of 6
5/3/08 at 8:26pm

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That's just wrong!!! The kids are there to study, not to get buddy-buddy with each other.
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post #4 of 6
5/5/08 at 8:42am

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Can't say I'm surprised to hear it. Back in the 80's my BF Kim was at UT and lived in Jester, the only co-ed dorm on campus, on the only co-ed floor. So this was just the next step. I don't think I'd want my DD doing it, but as the mother in the article said, college is also about life experiences, I guess this is just one of them.
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post #5 of 6
5/5/08 at 12:07pm

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I lived in a coed dorm in college and think they're fine. Like someone said, it's not much different than living in an apartment building. But I don't like the idea of a coed dorm with coed rooms. Sure there'll be sleepovers but having a roommate of the opposite sex is just asking for too many problems. I wouldn't even be happy with either of my kids having a roommate of the opposite sex for an apartment where they'd have separate rooms. That's still a little too close for comfort to me.
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post #6 of 6
5/5/08 at 2:26pm

Re: Colleges are allowing coed dorm rooms

I think it's wrong.
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