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Dartmouth: Dorm Assignments Will Not be 'Limited by Traditional Gender Binary'
CNS News ^ | 4/30/2012 | Susan Jones

Posted on 04/30/2012 8:36:08 AM PDT by IbJensen

(CNSNews.com) - Dartmouth College is expanding its "gender neutral" housing program, opening up more rooms where "students of any gender can cohabitate," the school newspaper, The Dartmouth, reported last week.

The Ivy League school's website says Dartmouth "seeks to provide a living environment welcoming to all gender identities; one not limited by the traditional gender binary."

The school's Director of Housing Rachael Class-Giguere is quoted as saying that gender-neutral housing options have been available on campus since 2007. (A growing number of colleges now offer such options.)

Recently, Dartmouth's Housing Office has seen “a lot of interest” in more options for male-female cohabitation on campus, one student told the newspaper.

The college also offers a separate gender-neutral "affinity" program," which caters to people who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with.

Students in the affinity program live together on the same floor and participate in events where they can "learn about and explore gender identity and expression in a supportive environment."

People who wish to join the gender-neutral affinity program must fill out a special application, which asks, among other things, if a student is male, female, or intersex. It also poses the question, "Do you have a third-person pronoun you prefer to be addressed by? If so, which one?"

Dartmouth says traditional, single-sex housing will continue to be available on campus -- "because it is a priority for some students," Class-Gigure told the paper.

For the class of 2014, Dartmouth says it received 18,778 applications, and of that number, 1,139 students were enrolled.

Undergraduate tuition, room, board and mandatory fees run around $55,365 a year.

According to the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, in the 2009-2010 school year, 1,142 Dartmouth students, or 27 percent of its student body, received federal student loans. The average loan was $4,995, for a total of $5.7 million.

652 Dartmouth students in the 2009-2010 school year also received federal Pell Grants, averaging $3,986 for each grantee and totaling about $2.6 million.

So the taxpayer tab for student loans in 2009-2010 was $8.3 million.

The federal aid came despite the fact that Dartmouth's endowment earned an investment return of 18.4 percent for the 2011 fiscal year, helping to boost the value of the endowment by $415 million to $3.41 billion as of June 30, 2011.

Dartmouth noted that the FY 2011 investment return marked the second consecutive year of double-digit growth, following a 10 percent return for FY 2010.

Dartmouth says its endowment funds approximately 20 percent of the College’s annual operating budget. Programs supported by the endowment include Dartmouth’s need-blind financial aid and academic, research, athletic, recreational, and cultural programs.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: dartmouth; homosexualagenda; livinginsin; promiscuity
Look up the word "cohabitate" in the dictionary.

COHABITATE = to live together as husband and wife, usually without legal or religious sanction. -----

Dartmouth has gone the way of Georgetown Law School Sandra Fluck style. The Dartmouth ladies are going to go broke on contraceptives alone much less the disease factor costs. The Fluck was spending $3,000 a semester (or was that a year?) on just contraceptives alone and then the Univesity gigs em with increased tuition fees every semester.

No one can afford an advanced education like this. How many to a dorm room is what I am wondering. Can a fella keep his whole stable in the same room or does he have to pay extra for other rooms too? No one knows who has what gender anymore, so maybe Dartmouth just gave up on sortin em out. Males in female bodies, females in male bodies and vice versa. Transgenderizations runnin rampant over the campus, and then there is the Transgendizing who ain't over the hump so to speak.

Just wait until bestiality is legalized.

Amazing what a ivy league college education can do to kids these days.

1 posted on 04/30/2012 8:36:15 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

“Gender Binary”?! Wow, we non-Ivy Leaguers are really out of touch.


2 posted on 04/30/2012 8:49:55 AM PDT by Birdland
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To: Birdland

What do they want it to be?

Base 4, Base 10, Octal, Hexidecimal?


3 posted on 04/30/2012 8:57:57 AM PDT by GraceG
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Private college. Their deal. As long as the students know what the arrangements are before enrolling I say let ‘em be as wacko as they wish. No one is forced to choose Dartmouth, and I certainly hope that parents with the finances to choose that school for their kids will be discriminating enough to look into the situation.

Whole different analysis for a state school, but I suspect we’ll soon see the same kind of arrangements, if they aren’t already in place in at least some states’ colleges.


4 posted on 04/30/2012 8:59:03 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: GraceG

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5 posted on 04/30/2012 9:18:50 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: Birdland

nontraditonalal gender binary housing????

Geez, we used to call it SHACKING UP

Sounds like a nerd’s dream come true

Couldn’t get a date in high school and now can ask for a female roommate


6 posted on 04/30/2012 9:25:56 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: Birdland
nontraditional gender binary housing????

Geez, we used to call it SHACKING UP

Sounds like a nerd’s dream come true

Couldn't get a date in high school and now can ask for a female roommate

7 posted on 04/30/2012 9:26:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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Uh, huh. And just how many parents would gladly foot the bill so their daughter could shack up with some guy? Not many. So their kids take out a loan to make it happen and then complain about paying it back after they graduate.


8 posted on 04/30/2012 9:48:21 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: IbJensen

It is hard to tell for sure, but the article makes it sound like they are looking to segregate people based on multiple sexual choices. If you replaced “gender identity” with “racial identity”, I believe you’d end up with a system where people could ask to be paired up only with others if their “kind”, and we’d all laugh at the notion.

On the other hand, imagine if someone figures out that Dartmouth is trying to put all the gay people together in one place so others don’t have to interact with them.


9 posted on 04/30/2012 10:26:01 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: davius

LOL. That’s what came to mind when I saw the word ‘binary’.


10 posted on 04/30/2012 5:09:17 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you so much,Pumpkin. You're the best cat in the world.)
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To: davius

LOL. That’s what came to mind when I saw the word ‘binary’.


11 posted on 04/30/2012 5:13:12 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (I love you so much,Pumpkin. You're the best cat in the world.)
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