more proof that to them, Parents are merely a money dispensary, nothing more...
Posted on 05/04/2009 6:10:45 AM PDT by reaganaut1
If sharing a bedroom with a student of the opposite sex is not your idea of appropriate college housing for your son or daughter, beware. The college or university to which you have just sent a deposit may have other ideas.
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“The University of Chicago has sent a letter to parents announcing that they’ll allow men and women to room together next year — and they won’t necessarily be informing parents about their children’s room arrangements.” My friend Maria has a child at the University of Chicago.
It never occurred to me that the parents of Chicago students were lucky to be getting that letter.
A few weeks later, I called my daughter at Stanford to see how her course selection had worked out for the winter quarter. “And how’s the new room?” I asked. She had told us over Christmas break that her current dorm — a “co-op,” where the students cook and clean for themselves — required students to change rooms every quarter.
That’s how it began. And, as I explained to my astounded mother-in-law when the dust had settled, it just got worse and worse.
“She’s sharing a room with one other girl and two boys,” I said.
“You mean a suite.”
“No,” I said. “I mean a bedroom.”
My mother-in-law couldn’t believe it.
“But wait,” I said. “It gets worse. She didn’t ask for this room arrangement. She missed the room meeting because she had a friend visiting from the East Coast. She appointed a proxy, and said she wanted a room with no smoking and no sex in the room, but she didn’t ask for a single-sex room.”
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Gender neutrality, eh. Seems someone forgot to check with Mother Nature first.
My daughter is graduating from the University of Vermont in a few weeks. UVM, in Burlington, Vt is a very liberal school. Howard Dean is going to be the commencement speaker.
Recently and without fanfare, she added a quote to her standard email signature line.
“Liberals go to therapy. Conservatives go to church.” Ann Coulter.
How great is that? =)
It sounds more like sexuality neutrality. Just when you think things can’t get any worse, it does.
Mommy and Daddy are going to start speaking with their wallets on this one.
I am sure the first lawsuit against a college or university as a result of rape or some other form of unwanted sexual activity as a result of co-ed dorm rooms will put a quick end to this.
Mission Accomplished.
Please note that there is nothing wrong with this. Dormitory living is the “socialization” of college life. Depending on your area off-campus apartments might be a good path too.
I should define this - “send my children to college from home”
I continue to believe that the most perverse people in our are society are the university and college presidents.
They’ve already spent the last 40 years making college so expensive that average-income people can send their kids to college only by crawling on their knees to the government and begging for loans and favors.
No commodity or service has experienced the ridiculous inflation of a college education......while the quality has not improved.
more proof that to them, Parents are merely a money dispensary, nothing more...
Nothing wrong with men and women sleeping in the same room?
If parents are paying, they have certain veto powers and the right to be informed IMO. That’s what my mother did to me, regarding off-campus living groups.
(And she wasn’t even paying.)
Since over 50% of the college aged students are gay* anyway, they would be just as safe with an opposite sex roommate as with a same sex one.
*Or so the Left would have us believe.
Your daughter is GREAT! And courageous!
I needed to define “this.” My this was that students should live at home and attend a local college.
Several years ago I mentioned the introduction of mixed-sex dorm rooms to one of my sons. He told me that this was originally initiated for gays who felt uncomfortable sharing rooms with straights of the same sex. But, of course, the heterosexual students were “abusing it” as they shacked up. We had a good laugh—what a bummer breaking up would be during final exams week.
“Your daughter is GREAT! And courageous!”
Yea! it takes guts to quote Ann or be a Christian in Burlington, Vt. I suspect it’s her way to give them the finger.
Let me tell my Burlington, Vt story. When Ann’s last book came out, I just happened to be in Burlington so I’d thought I’d have some fun. I went to Borders and did a quick perusal for her book, not expecting to see it prominently displayed. So I asked the clerk if they had. He eyed me as a trouble maker as Borders got bad press the last time her book was hidden.
He went zooming off to look for it. Not able to find it, he consulted with a co-worker and they zoomed around the store like flying monkeys, looking high and low, wondering where they hid it. Finally he came back with a copy and looking very pleased with himself. Here ya go he says.
I said, thanks! I need two copies.
Sometimes I crack me up.
No, they’re not. We have pushed “whatever floats your boat” as our guiding ethical standard for so long that most parents will just accept this arrangement as the latest manifestation of tolerance for diversity.
“How great is that? =)”
There are some great young Americans out there!
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