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In the fall of 2000, I promised my daughter the freshman that I wouldn’t write about Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) until she graduated. As a result, you readers learned nothing from me about the naked dorm, the transgender dorm, the queer prom, the pornography-for-credit course, the obscene sidewalk chalking, the campus club named crudely for a woman’s private part, or the appearance on campus of a traveling anti-Semitic roadshow, loosely described as a pro-Palestinian conference. Instead of hot news items like these, you usually just hear that Wesleyan is very “diverse.” Newsweek once hailed the school as the “hottest” diversity...

Web site stirs up criticism By Natalie Jordan, Rocky Mount Telegram Saturday, April 23, 2005 The Web site of an N.C. Wesleyan College professor has drawn fire from bloggers, columnists and other Internet surfers regarding its content. Jane Christensen, an associate professor of political science at the college, has a home page on the college's Web site that displays links to anti-war groups, alternative ideas about the Sept. 11 attacks, political action networks and pictures of masked people carrying weapons. The site also has links to her syllabi that give full descriptions of the classes she teaches. The site...

In the fall of 2000, I promised my daughter the freshman that I wouldn’t write about Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) until she graduated. As a result, you readers learned nothing from me about the naked dorm, the transgender dorm, the queer prom, the pornography-for-credit course, the obscene sidewalk chalking, the campus club named crudely for a woman’s private part, or the appearance on campus of a traveling anti-Semitic roadshow, loosely described as a pro-Palestinian conference. Instead of hot news items like these, you usually just hear that Wesleyan is very “diverse.” Newsweek once hailed the school as the “hottest” diversity...

Co-ed for the majority of people who ever paid attention to such things used to mean, males and females both participated. If it wasn't co-ed, it was either a male or female institution, event or housing. Schools could be co-ed, and so could their dorms. Actually, co-ed dorms are a relatively new concept, and for fathers with daughters, not a very good one. Nowadays, times being what they are, the term co-ed is being relegated to the dustbin of archaic terms, joining "swell," "neat," "groovy," "normal," "decency" and "morality." The folks over in Connecticut, specifically at Wesleyan University, have come...

Sex doesn't matter This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32741 Sunday, May 25, 2003 BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSCollege dorm 2003: Sex doesn't matterTransgender students treated royallyat university founded by Methodists Posted: May 25, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A liberal-arts school founded by a church is believed to be the first American college to provide special housing for transgender students. Freshman students this fall at Wesleyan University in Connecticut will have the option of living in a new "gender-blind" facility – one floor of a dorm accommodating up to 12 students,...

College reserves transgender student dorm by 365Gay.com This fall Wesleyan University of Middletown, Conn., will become the first American college to offer transgender students specialized housing. A number of universities already have gay and lesbian housing, but it is believed this is the first time transgender students will be given their own space. Transgender students in the freshman class will have the option of living in the new "gender-blind" facility, one floor of a dormitory for students who don't want to be categorized as one gender or another. The university has adopted a new mission statement that says freshmen who...

'Ambiguous Genitalia'???Wesleyan University in Connecticut will in September inaugurate a “gender-blind” dormitory for incoming students who aren’t sure what sex they are, reports the Hartford Courant. Students who opt for the floor will have roommates appointed without regard to their sex, perceived or otherwise. The rooms will be set aside for transgender students, described as those born with ambiguous genitalia or who don't identify with their physical sex. A famously liberal school, Wesleyan has garnered publicity in recent years for a course on pornography, a "queer prom" and rumors of a "naked dorm." Often, the publicity has been accompanied by...