Did you hear the one about the flip-flopping horned frog?
Last week, Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth announced a plan to create themed student housing that included rooms set aside for students interested in gay and lesbian issues - NOT rooms specifically for gay and lesbian students.
This week, according to The Dallas Morning News, the university reversed it's position. The chancellor said that the school's decision was not based on the national backlash against the gay/lesbian issue, but was based on those opposed to grouped housing in general.
Sure. It must have been those jealous geologists protesting the marine biology floor.
Obviously, TCU did not consult our Quick Poll that asked MEvBLOG readers if students should be allowed to live in themed residences. If they had, at the time of this posting, they'd see that a majority of those polled - 46 percent - think that when students are paying the bill, they should be able to live where they want.
Only 18 percent said residences should have nothing to do with sexual preference. The same number also questioned the university's need for more gay housing when it already has fraternity houses.
What? It was a serious poll!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TCU goes straight
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4 comments:
I didn't understand how it was going to work. Were they going to put two gay guys in a room together? Isn't that like putting a straight guy and a straight girl in the same room? Maybe they were going to have a gay guy room with a lesbian. Of course, that raises the question. How many frat guys would pretend to be gay if that meant the possible chance of living with a hot lesbian?
RE: Anonymous 1:00
So many questions...I'll take a stab at them.
1) I don't think they ask the students' sexual preference. It was going to be open to any student interested in gay/lesbian cultural studies.
2)One can never assume what goes on in the mind of a frat boy.
I am one of the many gay kids who grew up in Beaumont and went off to college and graduate school in other states. Many progressive colleges have coed/mixed and also Gay/Lesbian oriented dorms. It is no big deal. Funny how all the religious nutjobs went crazy on this TCU thing.
In the long run, it works against them because when straight people have the opportunity (say in college) to live around and get to know gay and lesbian people they are much more likely to understand and support our battles with the right wing people thinking they can "change" us. They can't, it doesn't work, it is false science, we are not all "Christian", and we will win in the long run thanks to young people who get it.
RE: Anonymous 6:16
I think anyone who gets a chance to live around someone or something new will learn to understand it more, even if they don't agree with it.
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