Ohio University to allow male-female roommates (Pushed by GLBT Center)

AP ^ | Jan 13, 2011 9:25 AM EST | AP

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ATHENS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio University plans to test allowing men and women to live together in the same dorm rooms.

It's an idea that was pushed on behalf of the school's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Center.

Center Director Mickey Hart tells the student-run newspaper The Post the gender-neutral housing will be of particular benefit to students who identify as transgender. Student Senate member Sean Martin says students in dating relationships who try to live together under the new housing option will be "frowned upon."

Administrators say a one-year experiment with male-female roommates will begin with this year's fall term, primarily for upperclassmen.

They say other Ohio schools, including Miami University, also are trying out gender-neutral housing.

[tunedin]

I attended OU and can assure you they’ve had coed rooming and bathrooms at least since the early eighties.

[Kenny Bunk]

This is Matt Lauer's alma mater. Not THE Ohio State University in Columbus. Bobcats/Bobkittens. Not Buckeyes.

It's down in Athens, a very hard-partying fun town in Southern Ohio, in the heart of the marijuana growing district.

A little clarification.

[Kenny Bunk]

Unisex bathrooms, showers, etc, are ALREADY standard at many colleges and universities. Have been for years.

[Ol' Sparky]

Why do GLBT advocates want to live with the opposite sex?

It must be because transgendered types want to live with members of the opposite sex.

[La Lydia]

Now I am totally confused!

[Elsie]

Ohio University plans to test allowing men and women to live together in the same dorm rooms.

ROOM? or building?

[Elsie]

Brave New World

[Elsie]

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[Elsie]

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[originalbuckeye]

I believe my first college was the first one to push through allowing men to ‘visit’ on women’s floors in the dorm. That would be Northern Illinois University around 1970.

[TheDingoAteMyBaby]

I would guess the gay/lesbian students want living arrangements with no possibility of sexual tension. But for that to work, gay men could only room with lesbian women and vice versa.