I'm calling correlation equals not causation. Schools with co-ed residence halls are more likely to be state schools or fairly liberal private institutions that don't intrude on student's personal lives. Institutions with more single-sex residence halls are usually religiously based and most definitely take an interest in student's personal lives. Also, the researchers information on student's not sorting themselves out is faulty. Most institutions allow students to give preferences as to where they would like to be placed, so while students might not give single-sex housing first priority, students who want a quieter environment will say that they prefer single-sex living environments over the more raucous co-ed environments. Also, the students are sorting themselves out before they even choose on campus housing by choosing what institution they will go to. Are students who choose say BYU over the University of Ohio inherently different, yes. Are students who go to BYU over the University of Ohio more likely to live in single sex housing, oh most definitely. The study is far from reliable in this instance. Since this is my field, I have seen other research that illustrates when men at institutions that have a history of heavy drinking and destructive behaviors start living with females, destructive behaviors and heavy drinking begin to drop. This is just a bad study. #college
@Jenloveshercurves: This is not to say that liberal institutions are concerned with student's personal lives, it's just that liberal institutions believe in not telling students what to do, but working with the consequences of students actions. IE: we aren't going to tell you to not have sex, but we are going to give you information on how to avoid STD's, pregnancy and other unwanted consequences and we aren't going to tell you to not drink, but you can't drink here and if your drinking has an affect on your school work or your living environment, there will be consequences, so here is how to drink in moderation. BYU would say, if you have premarital sex or drink, we're going to kick you out. #college
Okay, cool, but can we do a study on how many people in co-ed dorms will endure horrible midlife crisis, as opposed to those in same-sex dorms? I think some people need to get a wild phase out of their system. My dad partied through his youth, and then married my mom. His big mid life crisis: he went out and bought kayaks. One for him, one for mom/me/my sister or whoever wanted to keep him company. My uncle who was on the straight and narrow all his life hit 45, left his wife, started drinking a lot and going to strip clubs and trying to buy weed off of all of his nieces and nephews at family functions.
I'm not saying this is everybody. I am saying, some people need to get it out of their system, and dorm life is a good place for that. So uhhh, can everyone just explain to college students how to not give themselves severe alcohol poisoning or an STD, and then leave them alone and stop judging? #college
@Bunsen Honeydew: heh, my father did his college partying at UW-Madison, in '68-69. he's got some awesome stories. For his midlife crisis, he bought 27 acres of land and some solar panels to run his electric golf cart. He now has a small orchard and some grape vines. (We tease him that his midlife crisis was really a Hippie Crisis) #college
@spamanda: Hahaha sounds like our dads have similar ideas. My mom always said she loved that his midlife crisis was not three years older than me and blonde, and it did not require gas. #college
@Bunsen Honeydew: Yep! My mom was like, "well, there are definitely worse things to spend $50k on." And he's lost a ton of weight by working out there every weekend, so it was a win-win. #college
I lived in a co-ed dorm. The only thing I was "likely" to encounter was some dude in the laundry room wearing his LAST pair of boxers because it was the only clean thing he had. And maybe occasionally some guy passed out in the womens' showers because he drunkenly stumbled into the wrong bathroom. #college
@funnyface: Living in a coed dorm resulted in my not having sex in college. But while seeing 18-year-old guys in their natural state may not have turned me on, it did drive me to drink. #college
@andBegorrah: Come to think of it, it might have been my revulsion at the boys in the dorm that led me to date and eventually marry someone 5 years older. #college
Causation does not equal correlation. The article says 90% if dorms are co-ed. That 10% still holding out are likely in 1. single sex schools or 2. religious schools (very religious- even my Jesuit campus has coed dorms).
For the latter, well, if they want to go to a school like that odds are the students already have pretty strong beliefs regarding sex and drinking.
For the former it could be a lack of preferred partner gender or because it seems like most single sex schools are women's colleges, which you usually have to be pretty academically strong to get into. Someone who worked her ass off to get into one of the seven sisters isn't going to blow it by getting tanked constantly. #college
The most insidious part of this story is the fact that the school supports an annual "Backwards Beauty and Beau Pageant," in which students cross-dress for Fun and Prizes. And thus we understand that the school encourages *mockery* of non-traditional gender expression while banning a student's *genuine* embrace of her sartorial preferences--and, by extension, her lesbian identity.
Does the school also sponsor minstrel shows?
Beyond the obvious idiocy motivating this principal's decision, might we all agree that a well-cut tux will always trump a saggy, shiny graduation drape for senior portrait attire? Can I get a witness? #tuxedoyearbookpicture
I'm a yearbook adviser at a high school in North Carolina, and we have a student like Ceara who doesn't dress like a girl EVER. I had to inform the photographers that there was no problem with her wearing a tux, and that she would be included without issue, because they were trying to tell her she had to wear the drape for it. She's coming and getting her photo made, which is awesome. It's one of the two approved outfits. Where's the issue? #tuxedoyearbookpicture
"I tried on the drape and it looked ridiculous. It was terrible" said Sturgis.
The plot thickens. I think this was a situation where they made all the girls wear "the drape" which consisted of a piece of marabou and glitter fabric arranged across your chest so that everybody in the yearbook looked like they were wearing the same strapless ballgown for their pic.
It was mandatory for our class in the early 1990s. The effect in the yearbook was pages and pages of clone-like consistency. It didn't matter if you didn't want your bare shoulders showing or you hated the way "the drape" looked. You had to wear it.
I had no idea they were still making people do that. It was a not-so-subtle easy way to immediately separate the boys from the girls. Because if your gender can't be determined from 50 feet away, clearly you are a threat to high schools everywhere and must be erased. #tuxedoyearbookpicture
I'm curious: when asshole school administrations do shit like this, what the fuck do they think is going to happen? Really school system? REALLY? #tuxedoyearbookpicture
@SBJ: I kind of did a double take there because I read it as "You cannot keep a bitch with [shiny ass hair] down, people." instead of "You cannot keep a bitch with [shiny ass] hair down, people.". #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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I'm not saying this is everybody. I am saying, some people need to get it out of their system, and dorm life is a good place for that. So uhhh, can everyone just explain to college students how to not give themselves severe alcohol poisoning or an STD, and then leave them alone and stop judging? #college
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For the latter, well, if they want to go to a school like that odds are the students already have pretty strong beliefs regarding sex and drinking.
For the former it could be a lack of preferred partner gender or because it seems like most single sex schools are women's colleges, which you usually have to be pretty academically strong to get into. Someone who worked her ass off to get into one of the seven sisters isn't going to blow it by getting tanked constantly. #college
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Second thought: Gah, I'm stupid.
Third thought: But....if this trend continues, what will become of the Van Wilder franchise?!
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Does the school also sponsor minstrel shows?
Beyond the obvious idiocy motivating this principal's decision, might we all agree that a well-cut tux will always trump a saggy, shiny graduation drape for senior portrait attire? Can I get a witness? #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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The plot thickens. I think this was a situation where they made all the girls wear "the drape" which consisted of a piece of marabou and glitter fabric arranged across your chest so that everybody in the yearbook looked like they were wearing the same strapless ballgown for their pic.
It was mandatory for our class in the early 1990s. The effect in the yearbook was pages and pages of clone-like consistency. It didn't matter if you didn't want your bare shoulders showing or you hated the way "the drape" looked. You had to wear it.
I had no idea they were still making people do that. It was a not-so-subtle easy way to immediately separate the boys from the girls. Because if your gender can't be determined from 50 feet away, clearly you are a threat to high schools everywhere and must be erased. #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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Anyone else see the resemblance? #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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Bets are on as to the kids in the pictures to the left and right of hers if this gets printed. #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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YOU CANNOT KEEP A BITCH WITH SHINY ASS HAIR DOWN, PEOPLE. #tuxedoyearbookpicture
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