The student government at the Catholic University of America will meet today to decide whether to hold a student referendum on the new single-sex dorm policy implemented by President John Garvey. A report by Inside Higher Ed found students split on the issue of whether men and women should be able to live in the same dormitories.
Though the policy was intended to curb casual sex and drinking on campus, many students reported that it wasn’t working:
While students have a range of views about the wisdom of the policy, most agreed that there is still plenty of sex and drinking — and that single-sex living has not fundamentally changed those features of college life.
It’s unclear whether administrators would revise the policy if a majority of students voted to return to co-education dorms. However, a lawsuit has also been filed against single-sex dorms at the university. John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University, has claimed that the current policy violated the District of Columbia’s Human Rights Act. A court has yet to hear the case.
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