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Discuss “Jockstraps and tampons”

Jock straps in the laundry bin, tampons cluttering the medicine cabinet: When you’re living with a member of the opposite sex, what else could go wrong?

Besides those kinds of minor inconveniences, we don’t see a problem with mixed-gender housing. Students already live in areas coed by floor and wing; coed by room seems like the next logical step.

There are two reasons to support mixed-gender housing at Carnegie Mellon: a need and a want. The need addresses LGBT students who may prefer to have a roommate of the opposite sex. The want is for the university to respect our capabilities, as adults, to make mature decisions about who we want to live with.

The assumption that all students would be more comfortable living with a roommate of...

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