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| 311 | I voted "Yes" but I sometimes think that people should be required to live in both situations to give them a chance to grow up, see different points of view instead of being locked in their small little world. Besides, it would be interesting to see newspapers running stories about people asking for a waiver so they could live in a same-sex or opposite-sex only dorm for a change.  | Should students living in college dormitories be allowed to share rooms with members of the opposite sex? |
| 312 | k_o_c -- when I went to college the campus had only co-ed dorms and everyone seemed to have ended up fine. I never heard of any bad consequences because we were co-ed. Maybe this is one of those cases of self-fulfilling prophecies? | Should students living in college dormitories be allowed to share rooms with members of the opposite sex? |
| 313 | k_o_c, phi -- I meant *room*-mate. It's not any different from same-sex room-mates. You have to arrange with them to stay out of the room if you are going to have sex (hetero, homo, multiple). You have to get along with them primarily as people then their gender. You have to be considerate. Having a same sex homosexual room-mate doesn't save you from any problems people imagine exist with opposite sex and it's pretty low chance they'll even bring it up actually. My experience at the campus I mentioned is that, if anything, there's way less chance opposite sex room mates will have any sex with each other if they were not an item before being room-mates. It's about the same as being assigned a random room mate for your first day in school, you have to get to know them etc, the same stresses apply. I've known same sex room-mates who disagreed if one of them should be allowed to sleep in the nude and I've known opposite sex room-mates that slept in the nude and never showed any sexual/romantic interest in each other besides a healthy friendship. We are people, we are grown ups. We don't have to act like animals and even animals show restraint. And this one should turn some heads more than the co-ed thing: we didn't have a minimum drinking age in Brazil (you have to be 21 y.o. to go to a bar, but you can buy whatever you want, uncarded, at the supermarket, I've never even heard of liquor stores until I moved to US), the campus people treated us as adults and there was way less trouble with students even drinking, much less binge drinking than here that everybody gets all bent out of shape when people who are almost grad students are caught drunk in a bar out of campus. Parents should realize that when their kids leave for college they should be treated as adults so they'll have a chance to be adults -- they should actually have already been trained to act like grown ups, it's not and it should not be the college/university job. God knows, at tens of thousands of dollars per degree they should be teaching you your career, not how to behave like a real person. [PS: I'll get off my soapbox now -- sorry if I sound dogy, I don't mean to snap at anyone; it must be SC withdrawal (what happened yesterday that we didn't have SC?) ] | Should students living in college dormitories be allowed to share rooms with members of the opposite sex? |
| 314 | Romkey -- bummer about the outages, glad it's back! One of my housemates was in Minneapolis a few years back and tells the story of several states losing Internet access for a few days because a bunch of homeless people lit a fire under a bridge, trying to get warmer, and the heat melted the cables attached to the underside of the bridge...  | Should students living in college dormitories be allowed to share rooms with members of the opposite sex? |
| 315 | Oscar, this is Kristal_Rose, Kristal, this is Oscar. | How old were you when you first began masturbating? |
| 316 | Jeanne -- I believe that what Vos was asking was if it's "antique" as Americans see it (y'know, 20-50 years old) or as Europeans see it (oh, say, at least 200 years old, give or take 50 years)... | How many time-pieces do you have in your residence? |
| 317 | Enheduanna -- I agree with everything you mentioned. I still find it funny that I usually say I live in an old house (as in "it wasn't built this decade") when friends from Europe usually say they live in a new house (as in "it was built less than 100 years ago"). I realize I'm making sweeping generalizations, but I also meant to be funny. In any case I couldn't care less for antiques per se, I either like the object or not, the object's age is mostly irrelevant (unless it's food or medicines, in which case I look for unexpired items). | How many time-pieces do you have in your residence? |
| 318 | Anon #1 -- the web site is still there! | How many current-year calendars do you have in your residence? |
| 319 | It was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A minor character became really important and then faded again. | How many current-year calendars do you have in your residence? |
| 320 | Topper -- anybody else I would just laugh, but I can see you getting a walk-in freezer for your house... if anyone in the SC "crowd" would get one it would be either you or Romkey.  | "Heloise's household hints" Revisited. |
