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Princeton opens some of its dorms to mixed-gender accommodations
star ledger ^ | 10.16.09

Posted on 11/10/2009 2:04:14 PM PST by Coleus

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Emily Rutherford, who is active in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered activisim on campus, had advocated for a policy last winter in a progressive campus magazine.

These students, she said, especially transgendered students, may feel uncomfortable living with same-sex roommates.

"Right now, students can approach the director of student life and have their needs accommodated, but that involves "coming out' and being stigmatized as someone with special needs," Rutherford said. "Making gender a nonissue in rooming removes that stigma for all LGBT students."

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Princeton's Anscombe Society, which seeks to promote traditional values on campus, criticized the university's approval process. "It is a shame that this important policy shift was dropped on the student body without any opportunity for campuswide debate of the important matters at stake," Anscombe President Brandon McGinley wrote in an e-mail.

But Undergraduate Student Government President Connor Diemand-Yauman said that the proposal's success represented a significant victory for undergraduates.

"For some students, the issue of gender neutral housing can make or break their college experience," he wrote in an e-mail. "We should continuously be evaluating policy to ensure that all students feel comfortable and safe within Princeton, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation."

Princeton's decision puts the school in the company of a number of institutions that offer mixed-gender rooming options.

Liberal arts schools like Wesleyan College and Oberlin College were among the first institutions to establish mixed-gender policies in the early 2000s. Since then, several other schools -- including Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and now all Ivy League universities except Yale -- offer some mixed-gender housing.

In New Jersey, Montclair State University has allowed male and female students to live together in the school's The Village at Little Falls apartment complex for the last five years.

(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: coeds; dorms; highereducation; homosexualagenda; princeton; princetonu

1 posted on 11/10/2009 2:04:17 PM PST by Coleus
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To: Coleus
So what are they asking for private rooms?
2 posted on 11/10/2009 2:06:20 PM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Romak 7.62X54MM, AK47 7.62X39MM, LARGO 9X23MM, HAPINESS IS A WARM GUN BANG BANG YEA YEA)
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To: Coleus
If you are transgendered, what exactly is “same sex”?
3 posted on 11/10/2009 2:07:12 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Coleus

College students are either adults, or they are not.

They are over 18, so they can get married, fight for our military, raise families, buy land, vote or do almost anything else. Most are 21 and they can even buy liquor.

If they can chose to co-habitate off campus, why can they not chose to co-habitate on campus? I lived in a co-ed dorm; men on floors 1, 3 and 5; the women were on floors 2 and 4. If college students want to have sex; it’s just not that hard to either go to the girl’s room; or have them come to the guy’s dorm.


4 posted on 11/10/2009 2:11:10 PM PST by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Coleus
Oh the freshman up at Yale get no tail Oh the freshman up at Yale get no tail So to curb their inclination, they resort to masturbation Oh the freshmen up at Yale get no tail

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5 posted on 11/10/2009 2:13:16 PM PST by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Coleus
Next year's headline:

Princeton opens infant care center

6 posted on 11/10/2009 2:27:38 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: Coleus

What Emily Rutherford needs is a quick injection of male DNA. Sometimes lesbian women go straight after a couple of squirts of male DNA. The DNA starts swimming in their bloodstream and they get all doey eyed and start murmuring “ah” and “oh” and they get to thinking about jewelry and pretty laces. The male DNA helps them put away ugly flannel shirts.


7 posted on 11/10/2009 2:27:45 PM PST by BertWheeler (Dance and the World Dances With You!)
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To: Coleus

I should think the Department of Romance Languages will protest all this “mixed gender” business.


9 posted on 11/10/2009 2:49:16 PM PST by Oratam
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To: Coleus
It was done in The Harrad Experiment, a fine skinemax movie starring Don Johnson.
10 posted on 11/10/2009 2:50:25 PM PST by colorado tanker (What's it all about, Barrrrry? Is it just for the power, you live?)
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To: Morgana
only 2

11 posted on 11/10/2009 3:10:17 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Oratam

Nice double entendres. Romance, Gender.

Well done.


12 posted on 11/10/2009 3:13:55 PM PST by BenKenobi
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