Comments on: Those Pampered College Students, Again http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/2008/07/21/those-pampered-college-students-again/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:02:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Young Urban Amateur http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/2008/07/21/those-pampered-college-students-again/#comment-203 Young Urban Amateur Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:34:46 +0000 http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/?p=35#comment-203 Also, let's not even get started on the gender-essentializing inherent in the bias against co-ed dormitories. Zing. Also, let’s not even get started on the gender-essentializing inherent in the bias against co-ed dormitories. Zing.

]]> By: Young Urban Amateur http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/2008/07/21/those-pampered-college-students-again/#comment-202 Young Urban Amateur Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:32:30 +0000 http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/?p=35#comment-202 I don't even understand--I mean, what colleges *don't* have co-ed dorms? She's probably talking about co-ed by room (or even co-ed by roommate, which is limited to a handful of obscure, coastal, patchouli-drenched communist liberal-arts colleges [NOTE: SARCASM, HUMOR]) Even so, I have to say that the co-ed-ness of the co-ed-by room dorm I lived in was of almost no benefit to me whatsoever. There was a pretty girl down the hall I got to walk by a couple times a week, I guess. Is that really different from co-ed by floor? No, not really. But if Berea really does have no co-ed dorms whatsoever, that certainly does distinguish it from other colleges. I don’t even understand–I mean, what colleges *don’t* have co-ed dorms? She’s probably talking about co-ed by room (or even co-ed by roommate, which is limited to a handful of obscure, coastal, patchouli-drenched communist liberal-arts colleges [NOTE: SARCASM, HUMOR])

Even so, I have to say that the co-ed-ness of the co-ed-by room dorm I lived in was of almost no benefit to me whatsoever. There was a pretty girl down the hall I got to walk by a couple times a week, I guess. Is that really different from co-ed by floor? No, not really.

But if Berea really does have no co-ed dorms whatsoever, that certainly does distinguish it from other colleges.

]]> By: Rachel http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/2008/07/21/those-pampered-college-students-again/#comment-196 Rachel Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:49:36 +0000 http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/?p=35#comment-196 What a coincidence! I emailed the reporter about that statement. This was her response: You're quite right, or course, about coed dorms not really costing more -- and it did occur to me as I was writing it that it was apples and oranges: I justified it to myself as being a way of showing a fundamentally different headset than most of other wealthy colleges -- but I should have know that a sharp reader would wonder, correctly, what it was doing there. Thanks for writing. What a coincidence! I emailed the reporter about that statement. This was her response:

You’re quite right, or course, about coed dorms not really costing more — and it did occur to me as I was writing it that it was apples and oranges: I justified it to myself as being a way of showing a fundamentally different headset than most of other wealthy colleges — but I should have know that a sharp reader would wonder, correctly, what it was doing there.
Thanks for writing.

]]> By: srah http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/2008/07/21/those-pampered-college-students-again/#comment-195 srah Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:07:14 +0000 http://www.thisblogisoverrated.com/?p=35#comment-195 The University I Work At has a "leisure pool complete with spa" and a climbing wall. We are definitely <em>not</em> tuition-free, though. The University I Work At has a “leisure pool complete with spa” and a climbing wall. We are definitely not tuition-free, though.

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