Word: ed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would like to respond to the "College to Study Co-Ed Rooming" article [March 1] and the "Co-Ed Rooming Groups" editorial ["Why Not?", March 8]. Many gays, lesbians and bisexuals, myself included, would like the housing policy changed for the same reason many heterosexuals would: so they could live with whomever they wished to live with, male or female...
...well. To make the statements she makes, she would have to do much more research than riding the Senate Bus for a few hours. For example, she describes the way most of the women are dressed as "fashionable." Most people I know, whether they attend single-sex or co-ed colleges, try to look "fashionable." Yet Jeschke says this as if it were a character flaw...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...
...heart of Harvard's ban on co-ed rooming groups is an attitude that the college serves in loco parentus, a concept that works well in high school, but not in college. Harvard does not baby its students in any other way, leaving many to suffer in a sink-or-swim academic atmosphere. For Harvard to suddenly act parental when it comes to living conditions epitomizes hypocrisy. Harvard treats its students as adults when it comes to academic life--why not treat us as adults when it comes to private life...
Finally, this Harvard housing policy narrow-mindedly assumes that all couples are hetrosexual. Its ban on co-ed rooming allows single sex couples to live together. If Harvard were to carry its ban on non-married couples to its logical fruition, it should allow no rooming groups at all, forcing every student to live in a single...