Old School

[Nevada Hoya]

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/campus-overload/post/catholic-university-reverts-to-single-sex-dorms/2011/06/14/AGHbHjUH_blog.html?hpid=z4

If single-sex dorms were good enough for our generation, they are good enough for the current generation. Seriously, some issues that should be dealt with.

[Bando]

A university can do what it wants, but I just don't see the logic of the decision. Going to same-sex dorms isn't going to stop students from having sex.

[Boz]

What about the gay/lesbian students?

Why do they get all the preferential treatment, huh?

;D

[EasyEd]

Anybody want to guess what my comment would be?

[hoopsmccan]

Jun 14, 2011 18:36:25 GMT -5 EasyEd said:

Anybody want to guess what my comment would be?

Why would they make it harder for some bro to hit a slam piece on the reg?

[SirSaxa]

Jun 14, 2011 18:36:25 GMT -5 EasyEd said:

Anybody want to guess what my comment would be?

mmmmm, oh, I've got it:

"Jumping Jehosaphat! When did they start letting Girls go to college!"

[theexorcist]

Jun 14, 2011 16:57:52 GMT -5 Bando said:

A university can do what it wants, but I just don't see the logic of the decision. Going to same-sex dorms isn't going to stop students from having sex.

It makes it more difficult.

And, for the EasyEd question, "Why won't these kids get off my lawn?".

[tashoya]

Good news for the Georgetown boys and girls I guess.... still coed on the Hilltop! And now you won't even have to bother visiting Catholic!

Seriously though, talk about a completely misguided policy. I'd be shocked if separating the dorms by gender makes ANY difference. I'd be much less surprised to hear that the problems got worse.

[rosslynhoya]

Slow loading page or something? The better part of CUA's argument is that there appears to be a significant correlation between coed housing and the rate of binge drinking.

“The point about sex is no surprise. The point about drinking is,” Garvey wrote. “I would have thought that young women would have a civilizing influence on young men. Yet the causal arrow seems to run the other way. Young women are trying to keep up — and young men are encouraging them (maybe because it facilitates hooking up."

[tashoya]

Not a slow loading page. There is no way the multiple "studies" ruled out all other factors other than cohabitation that "caused" the binge drinking. Just as it should be entirely unsurprising that "coed dwellers are also more than twice as likely to have had three or more sexual partners in the past year" is almost certainly not the case. Again, cohabitation has been in effect in most places for quite a long time. It's just now that opposite sexes living together is causing binge drinking? Please. So no, not a slow loading page. Just very skeptical of the findings.

[strummer8526]

Jun 14, 2011 18:41:42 GMT -5 hoopsmccan said:

Jun 14, 2011 18:36:25 GMT -5 EasyEd said:

Anybody want to guess what my comment would be?

Why would they make it harder for some bro to hit a slam piece on the reg?

I won't even try to compete with this.

[rosslynhoya]

Jun 15, 2011 10:54:47 GMT -5 tashoya said:

Not a slow loading page. There is no way the multiple "studies" ruled out all other factors other than cohabitation that "caused" the binge drinking. Just as it should be entirely unsurprising that "coed dwellers are also more than twice as likely to have had three or more sexual partners in the past year" is almost certainly not the case. Again, cohabitation has been in effect in most places for quite a long time. It's just now that opposite sexes living together is causing binge drinking? Please. So no, not a slow loading page. Just very skeptical of the findings.

Skepticism is good, but I think CUA's intuition is sound. There appears to be just one study that's formed the basis for CUA's decision and that's not very supportive.

Researchers are perfectly capable of statistically controlling for all of the other factors that may influence the outcome. Upon further review, however, this particular study is pretty much raw garbage. It's not just the low number of respondents (~500) but the fact that it was limited to only five universities -- two of which don't even offer non-coed housing.

There's also a longitudinal study run by Harvard started in 1993 that may have a wealth of legitimate data that would be suitable for this same analysis at some point, but I don't see any results anywhere.