Take a deep breath and calm down!
It’s not going to happen in the United States where the dogma teaches that co-ed dormitories and homes are healthy and good for young adults, even if the practice correlates positively with a skyrocketing increase in more virulent, sexually transmitted diseases.
According to the Associated Press, Turkey’s prime minister is going to segregate male and female students in university dorms and student houses.
Secularists are aghast. How dare Recep Tayyip Erdogan interfere with their lifestyles by imposing his rigid and conservative religious ideology upon them?
The answer is simple: The Prime Minister is an Islamic-leaning conservative who sincerely believes his duty is to support parental wishes in the education of their children and doing so is in the best interests of young people and the state.
Stateside, no President or Governor–even if he or she wanted to–could get away with implementing a similar moral standard. So, the secularists at the nation’s institutions of higher education needn’t fret.
More importantly, however, imagine the outcry if Presidents of Catholic universities and colleges in the United States–imitating John Garvey of The Catholic University of America–were to be so authoritarian as to impose their conservative religious ideology upon residence life?
To read the Associated Press report, click on the following link:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/turkey-separate-males-and-females-dorms
To read The Motley Monk’s daily blog, Omnibus, click on the following link:
http://www.richard-jacobs-blog.com/omnibus.html
Notre Dame’s (yes, ND) dorms are still separated by sex, and there are rules governing the hours (“parietals”) when the opposite sex may visit.
In the 1970s, when a certain Oxford college voted on whether to admit women, the Master required the fellows to declare their votes one by one, beginning with the junior fellow. Each of them duly voted placet, all except the Master, who uttered a stentorian “Non placet.” After a pause, he continued, “Well, this is really most unfortunate, gentlemen. We appear to be completely dead-locked.” Like Dr Johnson, Heads of Houses, in those days, did not suffer their views tamely to be contradicted.
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Belmont Abbey College in NC and Franciscan University in OH have single-sex dorms.
the mormons out at BYU have kept much higher housing standards than simply separating the genders. It’s a shame all of the churches haven’t done the same with their universities.
Franciscan University has rather strict “visitation” hours, as well as having dorms separated by sex