Posted on 04/30/2012 8:36:08 AM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - Dartmouth College is expanding its "gender neutral" housing program, opening up more rooms where "students of any gender can cohabitate," the school newspaper, The Dartmouth, reported last week.
The Ivy League school's website says Dartmouth "seeks to provide a living environment welcoming to all gender identities; one not limited by the traditional gender binary."
The school's Director of Housing Rachael Class-Giguere is quoted as saying that gender-neutral housing options have been available on campus since 2007. (A growing number of colleges now offer such options.)
Recently, Dartmouth's Housing Office has seen a lot of interest in more options for male-female cohabitation on campus, one student told the newspaper.
The college also offers a separate gender-neutral "affinity" program," which caters to people who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with.
Students in the affinity program live together on the same floor and participate in events where they can "learn about and explore gender identity and expression in a supportive environment."
People who wish to join the gender-neutral affinity program must fill out a special application, which asks, among other things, if a student is male, female, or intersex. It also poses the question, "Do you have a third-person pronoun you prefer to be addressed by? If so, which one?"
Dartmouth says traditional, single-sex housing will continue to be available on campus -- "because it is a priority for some students," Class-Gigure told the paper.
For the class of 2014, Dartmouth says it received 18,778 applications, and of that number, 1,139 students were enrolled.
Undergraduate tuition, room, board and mandatory fees run around $55,365 a year.
According to the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, in the 2009-2010 school year, 1,142 Dartmouth students, or 27 percent of its student body, received federal student loans. The average loan was $4,995, for a total of $5.7 million.
652 Dartmouth students in the 2009-2010 school year also received federal Pell Grants, averaging $3,986 for each grantee and totaling about $2.6 million.
So the taxpayer tab for student loans in 2009-2010 was $8.3 million.
The federal aid came despite the fact that Dartmouth's endowment earned an investment return of 18.4 percent for the 2011 fiscal year, helping to boost the value of the endowment by $415 million to $3.41 billion as of June 30, 2011.
Dartmouth noted that the FY 2011 investment return marked the second consecutive year of double-digit growth, following a 10 percent return for FY 2010.
Dartmouth says its endowment funds approximately 20 percent of the Colleges annual operating budget. Programs supported by the endowment include Dartmouths need-blind financial aid and academic, research, athletic, recreational, and cultural programs.
COHABITATE = to live together as husband and wife, usually without legal or religious sanction. -----
Dartmouth has gone the way of Georgetown Law School Sandra Fluck style. The Dartmouth ladies are going to go broke on contraceptives alone much less the disease factor costs. The Fluck was spending $3,000 a semester (or was that a year?) on just contraceptives alone and then the Univesity gigs em with increased tuition fees every semester.
No one can afford an advanced education like this. How many to a dorm room is what I am wondering. Can a fella keep his whole stable in the same room or does he have to pay extra for other rooms too? No one knows who has what gender anymore, so maybe Dartmouth just gave up on sortin em out. Males in female bodies, females in male bodies and vice versa. Transgenderizations runnin rampant over the campus, and then there is the Transgendizing who ain't over the hump so to speak.
Just wait until bestiality is legalized.
Amazing what a ivy league college education can do to kids these days.
“Gender Binary”?! Wow, we non-Ivy Leaguers are really out of touch.
What do they want it to be?
Base 4, Base 10, Octal, Hexidecimal?
Private college. Their deal. As long as the students know what the arrangements are before enrolling I say let ‘em be as wacko as they wish. No one is forced to choose Dartmouth, and I certainly hope that parents with the finances to choose that school for their kids will be discriminating enough to look into the situation.
Whole different analysis for a state school, but I suspect we’ll soon see the same kind of arrangements, if they aren’t already in place in at least some states’ colleges.
Overheard in a locker room, “It was only our third date, and I made it to 73 65 63 6F 6E 64 base!”
nontraditonalal gender binary housing????
Geez, we used to call it SHACKING UP
Sounds like a nerd’s dream come true
Couldn’t get a date in high school and now can ask for a female roommate
Geez, we used to call it SHACKING UP
Sounds like a nerd’s dream come true
Couldn't get a date in high school and now can ask for a female roommate
Uh, huh. And just how many parents would gladly foot the bill so their daughter could shack up with some guy? Not many. So their kids take out a loan to make it happen and then complain about paying it back after they graduate.
It is hard to tell for sure, but the article makes it sound like they are looking to segregate people based on multiple sexual choices. If you replaced “gender identity” with “racial identity”, I believe you’d end up with a system where people could ask to be paired up only with others if their “kind”, and we’d all laugh at the notion.
On the other hand, imagine if someone figures out that Dartmouth is trying to put all the gay people together in one place so others don’t have to interact with them.
LOL. That’s what came to mind when I saw the word ‘binary’.
LOL. That’s what came to mind when I saw the word ‘binary’.
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