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"I think it's a wonderful alternative for people who either are transgender or feel more comfortable with the opposite sex," said Alison Tynes, a Guilford College sophomore.

Wow, I must be getting old. I never thought about having to make accomodations like these in dorm housing. I guess it's just the blending of sexes that is proceeding right now in our society. I guess some day, we'll all be gender neutral. Won't that be grand.

As always, as long as nobody is FORCED to co-habitate one can understand how the demand may be there for such a thing. There would still be two main problems 1) would it be an effecient use of dorm/housing space? Let's face it, co-habitation between sexes is tricky even with a marriage certificate. What's to keep people half-way through the semester from baling out. One would think that co-habitation between sexes would be potentially too volitile to be efficient. 2) what about legal waiver releasing the school from vicarious liability for preganacy, sexually transmitted disease, knife injuries etc. since you could easily see some lawyer going after the school for allowing these people to co-habitate etc.

If it is a small private school one could understand it, but a large public school or another with a premium on housing it would be more problematic.

Sharing an apartment usually means two separate bedrooms. In a dorm, that probably would not be the case. I will have to agree with Skeet Club in that it raises a plethora of liability issues for a college.

Now, I will put on my old fashioned parent hat and agree with you, Doug. If it's my child, NO WAY!

Higher education? I don't think so.

I thought Guilford College was associated/affiliated with the Friends/Quakers religious group.

If so, kinda wonder if they're quaking in their pews about the "sodomic" cohabitation policy that may be incorporated at their school.

Why not? If they can vote and drink alcohol (legally for some) they can go to Iraq or Afghanistan and get shot, why not co-habitate? Our old southern christian views are almost irrelevant these days anyway, unless you are a politician trying to win votes, or just old dried up prudish prunes, once again irrelevant people. As for me I don't think when my daughter gets college aged she would want to attend Guilford college anyway, no disrespect to the school. How much more monitoring can this country standd, let it go, take a deep breath and learn to accept new ideas, you will probably find that your kids, those raised with morals, will make very good decisions...Get out of their lives!