Boys, girls share living space on campus

May 5, 2008

By PETER SCHWORM Boston Globe

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080505/FEATURES13/805050304/0/OPINION

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.

Now, some colleges are crossing the final threshold, allowing men and women to share rooms. At the urging of student activists, more than 30 campuses across the country have adopted what colleges call gender-neutral rooming assignments, almost half of them within the past two years.