Co-ed Housing the way of the Future?

As I was looking through the latest issue of the GW Hatchet, I came across an interesting article about the Student Association getting ready to introduce a bill supporting co-ed housing opportunities.  Currently, GW housing programs only allow single sex rooms in co-ed buildings.  This means, that other for Strong Hall, the only single sex dorm, all housing buildings have co-ed floors.

Changing policy to allow students to request the opposite sex as a roommate is not unheard of these days.  I read an article about University of Chicago testing out new policies to allow non-freshmen to request roommates regardless of sex.  These policies are created for those who simply want to room with a guy or a girl as well as for the LGBT community.  It would negate any regulation restricting transgender students.

GW Senior Vice President is on record saying GW is not investigating any change in policy.  The Student Association bil will simply show support for research and change, but not force the university to take any action.

We will see if this changes in the next few years.  It is an interesting concept, and has been tried at other universities like Syracuse and Brown.

Kim

PS: there is also an article about Early Decision Applicants in the Hatchet if you want to check it out.