June 30, 2008 09:39 AM
Some Colleges Offer Coed Dorms
Twenty-six years ago, when I was getting ready to begin college, my father became a bit preoccupied with what I felt was a very silly thought: he worried that the roommate my university would pair me up with would be male. I explained to him that this was not going to happen, that I was living on an all-female floor, that this was not even permitted at my university, but he still worried. "What if they make a mistake?" he asked. He nearly drove me nuts over it.
I hadn't thought about this in many years, but then my Dad visited in May, and we were discussing my daughter's departure and here it came again: "But what if they give her a boy roommate?" So I said "Dad! Not again! She is not going to have a male roommate, stop being silly! That simply does not happen!"
Okay, so I was wrong. Looks like my Dad was just a little ahead of his time. Check out: One boy, one girl -- one dorm room, from Cnn.com. Although colleges aren't randomly assigning males and females to be roommates, some are now giving students the choice to have different sex roommates on campus.
