Should UCLA Have Gender Inclusive Dorms?

Although many opinions mention the fact that college students are "adults", first of all many are not. I went to college at 17, and I wasn't alone.
Second, students are very impressionable and seek peer approval. Give them the safety of at least returning to their rooms at night and not be approached by sexual predators, or the raging hormones of males!

How about working on the deficit? it is concerns about non-issues that put you in the mess that your are in.

First of all, I don't really care what kind of rabbit-like sexual behavior (supposedly) adult students indulge in. (I was in college once too.) And I don't really care about their sexual preferences or gender-bender desires either. Let them do as they wish.

But those who say it won't cost anything to the school (and passed on to users and taxpayers) are incorrect. It will take a group of employees time (=money) to sort out the wishes and desires. (And very possibly, like most government-paid bureaucracies, a "need" to establish an entire department to handle it.)

And no one here has mentioned this point. The vast majority of the true "customers" are the parents of the students, not the students themselves. They are buying a service for their kid. They are the ones who are usually going to write the checks for tuition and housing. They are the ones who's wishes and input should be considered as well.

I doubt very many parents if asked "Do you mind if we bunk your eighteen year old daughter with an eighteen year old boy?" are going to say "Sure, no problem."

I don't see what the big deal is. College students are legal adults, and if they're comfortable with it, why not? Despite harping on tax-subsidization, dorm living isn't free. I had to pay to live in the dorm I lived in at a state school. The students are paying to live there. They should be able to live with whomever they choose.

Why not, its happening whether they allow it or not

The middle ages are gone.Guess what happens when the cameras go away.

Really unbiased poll you've got here. Anyway, I see nothing wrong with it. As has been said, the people in question are adults, so what's the problem?

Just stomp USC in football. :)

Why? They'll have sex either way, at least let them have it in a secure place.

Why???? Lets not make things easyer on them.

Agter a few pregnancies embarass the school,this will stop.

Yes, it's so embarrassing when unmarried ADULTS get pregnant. Just ask Hollywood...

Go there to learn, not hookup.

Sure, why not, who cares? Frankly I fail to see what the issues is. I've had male roommates, it's never been an issue for me. Also, if you're in college or university, you're an adult. Post-secondary students, being adults, can make their own decisions regarding their roommates. Simple as that.

I don't see anything wrong with it providing all the roommates involved consent to it.

They are consenting adults. Let them do what they want.

The students should have a choice which gender they'd rather share a room with. If you have a moral objection to it, remember gay and lesbian students are going to be gay or lesbian no matter what. Transgendered students with still be transgendered. Everybody's already having sex. And it's not going to effect the taxpayers one bit.

But who cares anymore.

No perversion with taxpayer money. Period.

disgusting.



Whats next....Instead of Ladies and Gentleman on restrooms we will have four options

The horror.

If persons of opposite sexes want to live together they should do so off campus.

I think having a dorm just for those gays, lesbians, and transgenders would be a better idea than gender inclusive housing. Now if the dorm is off campus.....it's a different matter.... and in that case, let there be gender inclusive dorm off campus but ONLY off campus.

Its a bad idea anyway you slice it!

Since UCLA students start at age 18, they can all vote and serve in the military. Being old enough to vote and kill surely qualifies them to sleep with whom they want. It wont cost taxpayers any more or any less and anyone who opposes the idea is a dumbass

BEST TO HAVE COMPATIBLE ROOMMATES NO MATTER THE ETHNICITY, RACE, SEX/GENDER, ETC. HAVE KNOWN OF STUDENTS IN DORM SITUATIONS WHICH EXPERIENCED IMPOSSIBLE/INTOLERABLE LIVING/STUDYING CONDITIONS.... NO CHANGE IN TAXPAYER COSTS..

NO MORE ..
NO social experiments .. no to breaking the law openly (and being sanctuaries is violating the law) .. NO to all of it!
Signed .. please do not export this nonsense to other states .. A Taxpayer!

Oh for pete's sake let them sleep together if they want to, they are adults, UCLA has to concentrate on teaching and get away from being every students nanny.

If I (and other Californians) have to pay for their education, then I don't want to pay for social experimenting.

I agree with you that is why I don't think this should be a top priorty for UCLA, lets be real Fef if they are going to shack together they will. I did when i was in college(got thrown out of a few dorms myself).

You wouldn't be paying a dime more than you're already paying.

Sex is something that will always happen in college, regardless of whether or not men and women share rooms. I do not see why this is such a big deal.

I didn't say "no" to sexual relations -- just dorms paid for by taxpayers for them to cohabitat instead of study.

What makes you think that cohabitation is going to decrease their studying habits?

And more pregnancies.

UCLA must be offering classes in "Abortion Planning" to come up with this stupid idea. Let the kids that want to shack up do it off campus at their expense!

The term Gender Inclusive seems very vague. But why not put a gay male and a female together if they are comfortable with it? In fact, if the college students are legal adults, why not let "consenting adults" of opposite gender share a room?

Hould UCLA have a checkbox for "homosexual" on their housing applications? What about "bi-curious"?