Apparently conservatives have just cottoned on to the fact that a huge number of college dorms-and dorm rooms!-are co-ed. (Wait till someone tells them that the bathrooms have been going co-ed for a while now.) So this crazy woman takes to The Blogs to announce that she's horrified by her daughter living with a man in a dorm room and how they couldn't get out of it and how she stopped paying her daughter's tuition at Stanford. And her daughter was forced to explain the actual truth in the comments section of a Times blog. Isn't that just like parents-betraying their children on the Internet to their kids' bafflement!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
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I call total bullshit on the parents. I'm 53 and my dorm at SUNY Purchase was co-ed in 1973, and it was quickly becoming the norm then. Since the daughter says she's the oldest in the family, I'd be her parents might even be younger than me. They didn't know most dorms are co-ed these days? As several Times commenters, including the daughter, said, this is mostly to do with parents furious at a kid with different beliefs going far from home to study.
As for Mom, Karin Venable Morin, I found her mentioned on a Bishop's blog as a member of a right to life group. Scroll down a bit for a mention and her photo:
http://www.cardinalseansblog.org/2006/12/page/2/
Totally Agree. This is a steaming heap of mixed-sex poop. I'm of A Certain Age too. Coed dorms were making parents dizzy in the early 70's. Like most reasonable offspring, we told the folks to STFU and let us FU.
I'm older than this Mother. Cross your legs and shut up.
I was wait-listed at STFU.
I hope she gets out of this ok. It has to be hard to have your parents be so out to embarrass you.
STFU was my safety school.
So Sarah, were you class of '77, the fabled first graduating class? My sister was in that class, so I went to your graduation. I keep trying to get her to go to reunions or such but she refuses, saying it's very unPurchase-like to do such things. I went to Purchase, too - since I was a legacy, they had to take me.
I flunked out very quickly, after my first year. Famous like Dunkirk: a lot of us didn't survive..
Well, that's very Purchase-like, too.
"No, Mom, really, it's okay. I'm a lesbian."
The parents are little out of touch on this one.
We didn't have co-ed rooms, but we had co-ed floors (large state school). I will say though, you're not an "adult" until you start paying your own way and even then it's iffy in some cases. Mom had the right to stop paying, child did what she wanted to do and kept on living in sin (haha, see I made a joke there).
The biggest question is, why is a senior still living in the dorms?
This reminds me of 1993 when the MTA introduced gender neutral bus and train service. Before then all lines were segregated except the G which ran mixed cars as early as 1988. It was such a fuss when it happened but no one thinks twice about it anymore.
Why would you want to share a four-person room?
It's called a Mormon Single.
My classic line, when I was 16 to 20, when my mega-Irish-Catholic mother went nuts about, well, anything, was to start off with "mom, I'm pregnant by a black lesbian". She would let off a cloud of steam and a high pitched whine, and then fade into whimpers when she realized she'd been punked.
Cheaper, I suppose. Like the people who said, why doesn't she live off-campus. Depending on your loan and financial aid (yes, even nowadays)your dorm may be subsidizd but your own flat, not.