Put the Toilet Seat Down, Roomie
Co-Ed roomies coming to UofC
By PEGGY CASSIDY
Updated 1:19 PM CST, Tue, Jul 28, 2009
The University of Chicago has always been academically progressive, but a new policy change in the housing department may raise a few high-brow eyebrows.
Beginning in the fall semester, the university will allowmales and females to live as roommates, "something that was forbidden throughout the 117-year history of the Hyde Park school," the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
"I tend to get along better with guys," Lauren "Lulu" Danzig, of Seattle, said of her new living arrangement with roommate and friend, Charlie Barlow.
Although the policy is not aimed at romantic relationships, they are not prohibited from living together and the university does not intend to question the roommate choices students make.
The paper says the change stems from a call from transgendered students for "gender neutral" housing, and has been in the works for a couple of years.
Freshman are not included in the co-ed arrangements.
Copyright SunTimes
First Published: Jul 6, 2009 7:00 AM CST
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