Let's see how tolerant his roomate is.
Posted on 07/21/2009 11:25:01 AM PDT by paltz
Syndicated advice columnist Amy Dickinson sided with an un-named college today that told an incoming freshman he must room with a gay student despite his objections. Ms. Dickinson answered a letter of a mother of an 18-year old son:
"I agree with your school's policy not to discriminate. You could help your son by assuming that he will have a successful roommate experience, but let him know what his options are if he doesn't.
Sometimes students are held hostage by their roommates' nighttime schedule, alcohol use, or indiscriminate dating life. That's why the school permits students to switch roommates after a two-week trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
That is horrible. BTW does your niece still have the slut’s phone number?
Has there ever been an advice columnist that wasn’t in more need of advice than their writers?
My son never got to spend a weekend night in his own bed during his freshman year because his roommate's girlfriend visited every weekend. First he was on the floor outside the room. Then he was on a couch in the dorm hall. Then my son found a friend who let him stay on the sofa of a language house, where my son met a wonderful Republican girl who became his wife.
Sometimes good things come out of bad situations.
What a bunch of crap. I could never force someone to accept a gay roommate. It’s a free choice country. I would take my money to a different school. I am sick of being forced to accept a sexual life style I cannot condone.
That was my situation at the University of Northern Colorado, circa 1992.
I think a gay guy would have been an improvement.
If the person who is paying for housing doesn't want to live with a black person, a Hispanic person, or a homosexual they have every right to not live with them. This is the entire premise and reason for the existence of Suburbs.
You can always count on this woman to give the proper, PC, liberal answer. Always. She makes me sick.
Let's see how tolerant his roomate is.
It seems to me that ANY reason would be acceptable for who you want to live with. After all, who are they to enforce their morality (multiculturalism) on others?? Besides, the worst that could happen is someone gets their feelings hurt. happens to me all the time, but I don’t make a federal case out of it.
By the way, I’m considering changing my tagline. What do you think of “Socialism-morality for people that don’t have any”??
Well then, we should force a young college co-ed to room with a male. Why not? A homosexual claims to be naturally attracted to the same sex, why not force young women to be ogled by male roomates.
OK - so after the “Two week trial period” and the guy’s still queer, they’ll change things? Just spend that two weeks showing the guy how he doesn’t have to be queer, that he can change if he really wants to. How would that work out?
I was an RA and then an AD at my largish university. I actually was given the nickname of “coitus interuptus” because of a few of these scenarios. I was a bit older, as a veteran, than the typical fresh and sophs that lived in that residence hall.
I went back to campus a few years after graduation and ran into some of my old residents. They were all still friends, which was a great compliment to me. They told me that they really liked the way that I handled a few of those situations.
Oh the horror!
What a lunatic!!!
This is what passes for an “advice” column these days!!!???
Obvioulsly this woman must either be a pen name of a homosexual or just a f*g h*g who has too many homosexual friends she thinks were just “born that way.”
A poor roomate assignment can destroy an accademic semester. I hope these student appeals and changes the room away from the homosexual.
Advice to freshman.
Be sure you have a good supply of soap-on-a-rope.
I read Amy’s stupid advice sometimes for laughs. She’s a bitter, divorced man-hater, and militantly PC. I’d bet she has screwed up a lot of people dumb enough to take her advice.
Those skinheads look like a bunch of homos.
My roommate had SEX with his girlfriend while I was in the same room (under the covers). While I was absolutely disgusted, the hall director wouldn't do anything about it, because that dorm had 24 hour visitation that allowed for members of the opposite sex (my mistake for moving there, but I did hate not being able to have my girlfriend over to watch a movie after 10 on the weekends). The hall director basically said he couldn't do anything as long as the girl wasn't living there with us 24/7. This was my 3rd year in undergraduate. Needless to say the next semester I moved to a different dorm and lived in a room by myself. Problem solved (except no visitation from the opposite sex again... bummer). (while I was still living with the jerk, I bought a bookcase to "box" myself in so I would have a "wall" between our beds.)
If I had been more bold back then, I would have given the hall director more trouble until he moved me.
In a free society, one has the option of choosing if he wants to attend a college with a non-discrimination policy or not.
No, but if you have an elementary school-aged kid, I hope he/she never runs into this woman because she’s going to be an elementary school teacher.
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