Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Gay students to get special housing at TCU
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This is either a really great idea or a really bad one: TCU is about to become, to their knowledge, the only university in Texas to provide special housing for gay students (and straight students who support them). The housing is the latest in "themed" dorms/apartments on the campus -- other themes include world affairs, foreign languages, and soon, patriotism and Christianity. The aim of the themed housing is to allow students to live amongst people with similar interests.
I don't know -- isn't part of what makes college great meeting people with dissimilar interests?
Posted by Alex B.
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John McClelland Verified
Not sure how I feel about that. I wasn't out of the closet when I lived in a dorm, but if you are "sticking to your own" there is less of a chance of you going out of your way to learn about someone else's culture and life. And if you simply aren't exposed to it, you remain blissfully ignorant of it.
This is a weak example, but I was suite mates with Dre Bly, current Denver Broncos player. He heard me and some other white suitemates listening to the Wu Tang Clan. He was in shock. He had never heard of any white person that listened to rap music. Apparently that was uncommon in Chesapeake VA where he went to high school. Had he not lived with us, would he have ever learned that white people could enjoy the same music he did? Would he have gone through life thinking every white guy was a redneck?
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Pavel Lishin Verified
I can't wait for Christian Dorm and Muslim Dorm to start a prank war, and for Israel Dorm to start moving their stuff into Palestine Dorm while they're gone to class.
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Jason Rice Verified
Can we split the German Language dorm for old times sake?
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Jesus Valadez Verified
"live amongst people with similar interests."
Will Atheists get their own dorms as well?
7 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Andrew Anonymous
So segregation is OK when its voluntary? Basically the civil rights movement would not have happened if the powers that be did a better job in marketing segregation. Make the oppressed think it was their idea.
All I am saying is that it is a slippery slope.
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Clay213 Anonymous
How about a gas chamber dorm where all the students shower?
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Pavel Lishin Verified
So segregation is OK when its voluntary?
Um, yes?
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Scott Doyle Verified
Andrew, segregation is simply a word. You're assigning negative vibes with it. To congregate with people of similar lifestyles or beliefs is...how society tends to operate.
Not that it's the best idea to isolate yourselves considering college is such an opportune time to learn various walks of life. But it's not a heinous idea either.
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Jason Rice Verified
::So segregation is OK when its voluntary
Think again Pavel.
What hell would there be to pay if the "wrong" group wanted special isolation?
Slippery slope indeed.
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Andrew Anonymous
I wonder if they have a "college" themed dorm?
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Pavel Lishin Verified
I'm going to stop segregating my laundry.
I don't mean that I'm going to stop separating whites from colors, I just mean I'm going to stop arbitrarily splitting my clothes up into "dirty" and "clean".
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Jason Rice Verified
::"dirty" and "clean".
It is, after all, very subjective and judgmental. Even if the socks miss their "special" treatment. It's good for wardrobe morale.
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