Boys, girls share bedrooms on campus
May 5, 2008
By PETER SCHWORM Boston Globe
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Jason Carmignani hangs out with his roommate, Yael Bassal, at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. "We're both pretty mellow," he said.
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In the Woodstock era, the advent of coed dorms caused a stir, with Life magazine proclaiming the development "an intimate revolution on campus." Coed floors came along over the next two decades, giving college students immediate proximity to each other. The next step, coed suites and bathrooms, brought the sexes even closer together.