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From: gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Andrew S. Gerber)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Purdue housing info requested
Message-ID: <35@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 16:30:53 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-amt.35
Posted: Thu Nov 14 16:30:53 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 07:34:02 EST
References: <848@wdl1.UUCP> <701@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: Agreed...but conservatism is on the rise!

In article <701@ucsfcgl.UUCP>, mce@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Mark McEntee%CGL) writes:
> In article <848@wdl1.UUCP> kimery@wdl1.UUCP writes:
> >...for a co-ed dorm try one of the H-halls (try Harrison).  These are
> >clean, and contained very friendly people, at least when I lived there they
> >did.  The co-ed part is nothing to worry about, its guys on one half of the
> >building and gals on the other, with escorts required at ALL times.
> 
> I never imagined any normal school was that bad ... expect it of
> out-of-the-way schools promising the best in old-time morality for your kids.
> And to think I was interested in Purdue.
> 
> At MIT there were ~10 dorms, one each for all-male and all-female.  The first
> dorm I stayed in was co-ed but separated by floors [that changed a year ago].
> The others were mixed by floors/suites.  In the less traditional dorms, there
> were co-ed rooms ... it was really no big deal.  Shared bathrooms, everything

Yes, I had the same feeling when reading the article about Purdue.
But remember, 10 years ago co-ed dorms were a NEW THING.  Now, they're
taken for granted.  MIT still has the same kind of dorm system, with
one, large, all-girls dorm, and one, large, all-make dorm.  They are
both places I would never want to live.  (I lived in the all-male dorm
for 1 year and hated it)

I find that all-male dorms tend to promote massive drinking,
rowdyness, and harrassment of less than macho residents.

All female dorms, in certain schools, promote clustering, shyness on
the part of women, and fear of the outside world.

My dorm is co-ed, women and men living in rooms right next door to
each other.  This is how life will be when you get out of college --
let's face it, single sex dorms promote immaturity.

I would never, ever, again live in a single sex dorm.

			Andy


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