Are there coed bathrooms

Even so, the shared bathroom has long been a cornerstone of dorm lore. And on the surface, it can seem like a good idea.

Even if it saves a walk to the opposite end of the dorm, most agree it would be hard to adapt to a full-time coed bathroom. And few things are worse than accidentally getting intimate with an unsuspecting floormate. At least one student had a stronger stomach. David Weinberg, a sophomore engineering major, transferred to Syracuse from Union College in Schenectady. He said his residence hall floor there had a coed bathroom and two single-sex bathrooms.

Not many people minded. I think out of 50 people on our floor only one person had a problem with it. Under closer examination, however, Weinberg did reveal a small problem with the coed setup. When students get a little too intoxicated, they tend to pull some embarrassing stunts, and such accidents are only magnified when they happen in the bathroom.

One drunken evening, Weinberg was using the bathroom when his body decided to change gears. And there were girls … in the bathroom. That was pretty embarrassing. Not every wasted trip the bathroom ends so catastrophically, but the prospect still worries partiers. Drunken humiliation notwithstanding, some creative residents have come up with a more stimulating use for a coed bathroom — hooking up.

The stalls and shower stalls have doors. Use them and dress modestly. There nothing wrong with alittle personal space from the other sex.

Apparently a couple of boys told her to put some clothes on and it has not been a further problem. That is students who may have gender identity issues would feel more comfortable in that situation. Not a new thing—there were co-ed bathrooms in the dorms when I went off to Berkeley some years ago. I would say the boys were more squeamish about it in the beginning but those bathrooms tend to be well-built for privacy in stalls.

The showers all had a shower with curtain and a changing room connected with a solid lock door. A girl could use a little privacy. When I went to college I was in an all girls dorm and so you had to always accompany any males up to the floor. They were not allowed to wander around on their own. So different from now.

As mentioned in the dissenting opinion, "Chinese" individuals were expected to use White facilities, but clearly did not belong to either of the "the two races. In other words, you imposed the false dichotomy there in which people must comport with a meaning for "us" and a meaning for "them" that other people apparently have agreed upon but haven't spelled out. If I'm free to choose whether I'm "us" or "them" -- as is everyone else -- and I am empowered to decide for myself whether I'm more like "us" or more like "them" or just don't care to give it all that much thought , there's no problem is there?

There isn't even a dichotomy. The real beauty of "us" and "them" signs, of course, is that the cleaning staff has to clean half as many bathrooms. The use of more conventional and divisive signage is, in truth, a means for The Man to oppress the working class. While well-meaning progressive-thinkers are sucked into a debate about labels and regretting the limitations of their preferred language to accommodate all people, they're overlooking the oppression of the labor force that's going on.

Those other signs mean there's one extra bathroom that must be cleaned for no good reason. And that extra bathroom in a dorm is one less dorm room or TV lounge which reduces the size of the student body and is clearly the administration's subtle-yet-devious method of suppressing student outrage. There are sinks and toilets and showers It's all part of the grand deception. I know that the term "bathroom" worked just fine for years, but how many years since the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v.

There was when she first arrived in I assume it is still operating. But there are not any dorms that are entirely single-sex. It's a common misperception that Baldwin is all women; as WAvegetarian noted, that's not true. Yeah, they both are bathrooms but one is family and friends while the other are complete strangers. Not the same, unless you leave your house open for people to walk in and use it.

Plus you have all the needs behind one locked door. If anything, I think that the showers should be seperate from coed bathrooms. I stayed at Oberlin for two weeks over the summer, and I lived in Kahn Hall, a co-ed dorm with co-ed floors. There is also one private single bathroom on each floor.