Yale Daily News

Right. On.

Thanks for the article. It's amusing that at this point in time, the administration still deigns to consider it appropriate to tell us who we should live near — no, I won't say with, because like many other juniors, I have a single.

Honestly, the only reason the administration seems to ever give is that two people in a relationship might live together, then break up, and oh no, call in the tanks, and retain Chicken Little as spokesman.

Should the university change for the desires of a "small group" of people? Let's instead put it this way: should the university remain the same, just so a guy and a girl can't make a semster-long mistake? I think I've heard of worse.

This infringes on no one. Want to room with guys? Room with guys. Girls? Same thing. I guess the only other problem is that more people might choose to live on campus, instead of moving with their friends to an apartment ...

AMEN

gender neutral housing just means lots of boyfriends/girlfriends living together and then regretting it for MONTHS after they break up.

On the contrary, most people that I know who've expressed interest in gender neutral housing have not had living with a s.o. in mind. Besides, what's the university doing to prevent similar blowups from happening to gay couples? Or, for that matter, mere friends who have a falling out?

One of the things you learn at university is how to live with others for long periods of time, and to make things work out even when you have interpersonal problems. Otherwise we might as well all have singles.

I don't see why the university is unwilling to extend that life lesson to include living with the opposite sex. Many of us are going to end up doing that at some point anyway; why not let us start learning how to do that now?

really? that's a reason not to let friends share suites?! like everyone does already off campus?! the worse thing that could happen is sharing a double, then having to move one of the beds into the common room. ahhh.

And so we should stop groups of friends from living together just because couples might decide to live together and break up? And what about students whose gender identity or sexual orientation doesn't fit into the neat and simple categories that ages of social conditioning have provided?

Is it even Yale's job to protect its students from that kind of potentially unwise decision? I don't think so. I would rather be at an institution that provides people the freedom to make their own mistakes, as well as the freedom to live in a comfortable and accepting environment. Isn't the bizarre combination of those two freedoms what a college education is all about?

If you are really suffering so much because you can't live with your friends, just move off campus next year. The problems created when couples living together break up are very real and shouldn't be glossed over.

"How are we to come to respect each other when we cannot live together?" Are you serious?! Thanks for that one :)

Ezra Stiles does do mixed suites--you just have to be an upperclassman to get them. Better luck next year

Agree with #9.

As for other colleges: if you are such a slouch that you cannot engineer some path around the rules, well, you don't DESERVE to get what you want.

Kind of the normal Liberal trajectory: "I am too dumb/lazy/mediocre to get what I want via skill, so I'd better agitate!"

#10

-As I see it, it's not a matter of wanting to see friends more, this is clearly an attempt to actually make a difference in how Yale views housing and what are appropriate living situations. Why do you consider this dumb/lazy/mediocre agitation? Is it so idiotic to want something like this to be institutionally accepted as opposed to something you engineer a path to?

Needless to say, I agree