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Indiana University-Bloomington Lets LGBT Students Self-Segregate in Their Own Dorm
College Fix ^ | July 29, 2015 | Matt Lamb

Posted on 08/02/2015 3:11:14 AM PDT by Zakeet

‘A safe space for those people who feel they need it’

One of the most gay-friendly universities in the country is becoming even friendlier, by offering to shelter its LGBTQ students from the rest of the school.

Indiana University-Bloomington is opening a “thematic residence hall” this fall for students who don’t identify as straight men or women.

It will have a particular emphasis on transgender students and those who don’t “subscribe to conventional gender distinctions,” the Herald-Times reported, citing GLBT Student Support Services Office Coordinator Doug Bauder.

IU’s Residential Programs & Services (RPS) is less specific than Bauder. It says the so-called Spectrum area, housed within another dorm, is “designed to make all students of all gender and sexual identities feel comfortable and supported,” including “allies,” meaning supportive heterosexuals.

Spectrum uses “shared locking, individual bathrooms,” according to its RPS listing. The Indiana Daily Student reported in December, as Spectrum was in development, that it was specifically placed within a preexisting dorm that didn’t have a single-gender arrangement, given that its residents “are on a gender, identity and sexuality spectrum.”

Spectrum has a “connection” with the Gender Studies department at the school and a “direct partnership” with Bauder’s office, RPS says.

Students who live in the dorm will enjoy opportunities such as forming a delegation to the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference and attending campus events “such as a campus film screening, guest speaker, Kinsey art exhibit, etc.,” RPS says.

Recent winners in the Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show include an artist who made a “self-portrait” of her own sexual intercourse and climax, and another who designed a wooden sculpture of male genitalia in the posture of a rodeo bull.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: absolutemorals; dorms; education; homosexual; homosexualagenda; indiana
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To: relictele

Given their attendance over the years, each made-up gender could have their own section at home games.


21 posted on 08/02/2015 5:42:48 AM PDT by FlJoePa
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To: FlJoePa

That’s not a dorm...it is an insane asylum posited as a dorm.


22 posted on 08/02/2015 5:46:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
So, it’s bad when whites want to self segregate into their own safe space? Logically speaking, what’s the difference?

Of course, it is bad for whites to express their "white privilege" by wanting to self segregate, whites don't need safe spaces as they are the dominant culture and must be open to criticism to feed their white guilt..

How else will libtards force their perverted culture on them..

As for being logical, is that even in the libtards lexicon ?

23 posted on 08/02/2015 5:48:14 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Zakeet

“Gender studies”?

is there a course in dna testing?
Pass- fail!


24 posted on 08/02/2015 5:59:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: missnry

That should be a t shirt

Except it would get you arrested on “hate crimes”


25 posted on 08/02/2015 6:01:22 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Zakeet

That’s called “leaving them to their own devices.”


26 posted on 08/02/2015 6:15:15 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Zakeet

I wonder what percentage of the total undergraduate population will be in the dorm.
Does this segregation make these special people targets? How does this help to promote acceptance of their life choices?


27 posted on 08/02/2015 6:16:39 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (A black mother should not have to fear her son's death whem he commits a felony.)
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To: rocketmag

“I don’t necessarily think this is a bad thing”

Me neither. Put some sharks between me and that island ;)


28 posted on 08/02/2015 6:27:19 AM PDT by GoneSalt
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To: Zakeet

The main goal of colleges is to destroy the concepts of rights and wrong held by students, which they learned from parents and church.


29 posted on 08/02/2015 6:40:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Zakeet

Time for corporate sponsorship: The Lysol Dorm.


30 posted on 08/02/2015 6:44:28 AM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: relictele
Yeah, well that just shows how little you know.

IU has merely had 48 re-building years in a row.

31 posted on 08/02/2015 6:46:09 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Zakeet
"Thematic Residence Halls"


32 posted on 08/02/2015 8:10:49 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Zakeet

Sicko Hall...


33 posted on 08/02/2015 9:27:25 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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