Posted on 04/14/2023 1:11:16 AM PDT by grundle
Following weeks of student protest, Yale College will now allow students to request to live on single gender floors.
Dean of Student Affairs Melanie Boyd announced in a Thursday email to students that Yale College would provide single-gender housing options after weeks of student demands for expanded religious housing accommodations.
The news comes following a petition and rally requesting that the new streamlined housing process include religious accommodations — particularly single gender floors. Thursday also marked the beginning of group formation for the spring housing process.
The new accommodations allow students to submit requests to live on a single-gender floor by noon on March 14. Students can choose between requesting to live on a single-gender floor even if that means being housed separately from their desired suitemates or requesting to live on a single-gender floor only if they are able to remain with their housing group. Students living in single-gender suites are also able to fill out the form expressing their willingness to live on a single-gender floor together.
“As soon as I saw the email, I just felt an overwhelming sense of relief,” Inssia Ahmed ’25 told the News. “It’s so amazing to see all the hard work we put into advocacy pay off in a tangible way — a big thank you to all the other student leaders for aiding with everything from the petition to the rally. I’m also grateful to the administration for listening and responding to our concerns.”
Zahra Yarali, the president of Yale’s Muslim Student Association, claimed that the policy was the result of meetings between students Dean of Yale College Pericles Lewis and Boyd. Yarali elaborated that the Dean’s office was open to feedback and receptive to the students who met with them’s concerns.
“This new addition to the housing policy going forward is based off some troubleshooting we did in the meeting with Dean Lewis and Dean Boyd,” Yarali told the News.
Sabrina Zbar ’26, who is Orthodox Jewish, has been involved in the recent activism for religious accommodations. Zbar, who is in Saybrook College, said that when she applied for first-year housing in the fall, she was able to express her desire for single-gender housing in the survey for incoming student housing. She hoped to complete a similar survey when moving into her residential college in her sophomore year.
The survey Boyd sent out Thursday, Zbar said, took only about a minute and a half to fill out.
“I was really happy because the administration listened to our requests, even if not immediately, and that our practices were respected and that meant a lot,” Zbar told the News.
Boyd wrote in her email that once the requests are received, the housing office will do “what it can” to create single-gender floors by taking these students out of the housing lotteries or room draws and assigning rooms directly.
While these requests are not guaranteed, the Housing Office is taking an active effort to accommodate all students that request these accommodations.
“The housing office will use housing that has historically been of average demand—neither the least desirable nor the most,” Boyd wrote in her email. “For juniors, assignments could be in annex housing.”
Room selection for juniors will occur Apr. 20 and 21, and Apr. 10 to 12 for sophomores and seniors.
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So, whatever happened to boys dorm, girls, dorm and that’s the way it is?
It’s all part of the sexualization that those in education have been actively engaged in for as long as I have been around.
The results are here for all to see. You can’t make up women scared of men, women marrying women, and vice versa. The gender idiocy masquerading as some kind of science experiment.
I have seen the light as to why those who went before us classified male queers and the sex they engaged in as a capital crime. Besides the fact of Biblical prohibition.
Closeted homosexuals were the best kind. If there can be such a thing as best in their case. Is it even possible to cap that open container? With so many laws or rules against discrimination, perhaps not.
I will put in a good word for discrimination. It’s what separated acceptable from what should be the unacceptable. The world has been turned upside down, and the perception is it’s going to take a bloody revolution to right the ship of State.
It’s how God deals with man when man gets really bad. We shouldn’t be expecting less.
Okay. Are we talking single biological gender or transitional gender?
Don’t send your kids to college, folks. Trade schools are the better path.
I would guess the first rather than the last
Oops. There’s the transvestite monkey wrench.
Yes and Muslims are the conservative future.
“I will put in a good word for discrimination.”
Discrimination always had been something positive — until the left glommed on to it and gave it a negative connotation. Like “gay”, rainboes, etc.
“Yale offers single-gender housing option following student protest”
given the thousands of genders, that’s an awful lot of single-gender floors ... does yale even have that many floors?
So we see that Islam is still at the very top of the PC food chain after all. Weak Christians will just have to ride muslim coattails in the transgender battles.
Self segregation. They should also have their own classes, water fountains and busses. Gotta love the irony here.
There is a Christian College in Mo....College of the Ozarks ...that just lost it’s battle to segregate dorm rooms.
What is the difference?
Why are Christians referred to as “haters” etc and not Muslims? Why are Muslims being deferred to at Yale?
My guess is it is fear. hmmmmmm 9-11? suicide bombings? Isis.
Sure but as we all now know “gender” is simply a flexible construct. Nothing prevents a person with testicles and a penis from requesting to live in female only residence.
Glad I could clear that up for you.
You're using logic to understand the actions and motives of the Left. That doesn't work.
The Left is all about the party line. Muslims are a protected minority by the Left and, ergo, they cannot be criticized no matter what they do.
They and their actions are beyond the reach of logic.
If Muslims toss homosexuals off roof-tops, people just look the other way and--poof--it didn't happen.
” Are we talking single biological gender or transitional gender?”
Yes
So Yale says that they will try to accommodate students that do not want to stay in co-ed dorms. Why is this a bad thing?
In the good old tradition of Free Republic, Freepers are not reading the content of the article.
This is what the students were protesting for and what Yale University is going to accommodate those who want this living arrangement on campus for this particular college at Yale.
Not sure why this is a bad thing. Seems like the Muslims and Jewish students are on the same page on this.
Can’t wait for the first transgender woman to demand a room on the women-only floor.
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