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I went to college in the seventies so it has been a while since I lived on a campus. I would like to know if it is now common practice to have young women and men sharing a common bathroom. I frankly am uncomfortable with the idea but perhaps now it is an accepted practice.

By Marite (Marite) on Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 09:25 pm: Edit

It seems the accepted practice. I, too, was uncomfortable with the idea. But it turns out that my S never had a problem in the four years he was in college. College students keep different hours; never once, he reported, did he bump into a female student either in the hallway on the way to or from the bathroom or in the bathroom itself.

By Mstee (Mstee) on Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 09:35 pm: Edit

My younger S's dorm is an old hotel, and every room has its own bathroom. So he has one roommate and they share a bathroom. Sounds pretty cushy to me. Never occurred to me to ask my older S what the arrangement is at his school. . .

By Wjb (Wjb) on Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 09:42 pm: Edit

At my daughter's school, the bathroom situation varies from dorm to dorm. Some dorms are coed by floor. Obviously, those dorms have single sex bathrooms. Her dorm is coed by room, but the bathrooms are still single sex. I believe that still other dorms that are coed by room have shared bathrooms. I know that at some schools the kids on a given floor vote on whether they want to have same sex or shared bathrooms.

By Aparent4 (Aparent4) on Sunday, October 03, 2004 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Most dorms are coed at my kids' school, but all bathrooms are single-sex.