Experimental Living

Campus Report ^ | August 14, 2009 | Deborah Lambert

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Experimental Living

by: Deborah Lambert, August 14, 2009

A new dorm room policy allowing male and female students to share the same dorm room is gradually becoming more accepted on our nation’s campuses.

At the University of Chicago, two 19-year-old students, Charlie Barlow and Lauren Danzig will be rooming together this fall under the new policy. The duo apparently is not romantically involved, says Lauren, who explained to the Chicago Sun Times that while she has a boyfriend on campus, she chose to live with Charlie because she gets along better with men. The Seattle native says her parents are okay with her decision.

“The change in policy was debated for the last couple of years after advocates for transgender students pushed the university to allow ‘gender neutral’ housing. They said some transgender students feel uncomfortable rooming with students of the same sex when they actually identify with the opposite sex.”

Although the option of coed dorm rooms has been made available by numerous liberal schools like Wesleyan University, Oberlin College and Oregon State University, it raised some eyebrows when a conservative campus like the U. of Chicago adopted a similar policy, said the Chicago Tribune....

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[Arkansas Toothpick]

And it unrelated news today, pregnancies among women aged 18-22 have skyrocketed.

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Once she starts undressing in his presence, how long will it be before he claims to realize that she is so much more than a mere friend to him?

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Once she starts undressing in his presence, how long will it be before he claims to realize that she is so much more than a mere friend to him?

Not long for him. Maybe a bit longer for her.