A Bathroom of Her Own

[Butterfly]

A Bathroom of Her Own
21 December, 2009


http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/21/bathrooms


The coed college bathroom, like the coed college dormitory, is so common (at least in some parts of the country) that it inspires crude comedy sketches, advice columns and complaints.

At least one student who doesn't think bathrooms should be shared between male and female students is fighting back. A new lawsuit by a student at Green Mountain College charges that Vermont officials (and those in other states) have an obligation to make sure that all public buildings need to have separate bathrooms for men and women.

[Shana A]

Student sues for right to go to bathroom...

...in a single-sex restroom at Green Mountain College, where only co-ed bathrooms exist

Mark Andrews

http://www.collegenews.com/index.php?/article/student_sues_for_right_to_go_to_bathroom_12212009114635252/

Boy, bet that headline made you do a double take, didn't it? What college could be so totalitarian as to not allow a student to rightly worship at the porcelain goddess? It's a freedom of religion issue, if you really think about it.

But, no, the suit that freshman student Jennifer Weiler filed against Green Mountain College registers states that there's a reported lack of single-sex bathrooms at the Poultney, Vermont-based liberal arts college. Green Mountain not only has co-ed residence halls (as do most colleges), but co-ed bathrooms as well.

According to the Burlington Free Press, in her suit, Weiler alleges that when she complained to the school about the alleged lack of single-sex bathrooms in her dormitory, the school then designated a bathroom in the dorm as a single-sex women's bathroom.