Word: genderism
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While the College is deciding how to accommodate students who need gender-neutral housing, Boston University’s policy of not allowing undergraduates to host guests of the opposite sex in their rooms may change come September. Currently, BU students cannot use their ID’s to swipe into dorms other than their own after 8 p.m. In order to have visitors, students must obtain a three-day guest pass 24 hours ahead of time. Guests of the opposite sex must be signed in by a co-host of the same sex. Under the new policy proposed...
...Debating on behalf of the anti-final club position, Juliet S. Samuel ’09, who is also a Crimson editorial executive, outlined reasons final clubs belong in the lowest circle of the inferno. Her three major ones: final clubs institutionalize gender differences, punching is damaging to an individual, and clubs institutionalize privilege...
...College even fastidiously honors individual students’ judgment about who they should live with—men or women or both. Students can now directly apply to live in "gender-neutral" suites simply by selecting "transgender" on their housing forms...
Jessica C. Coggins ’08 is a women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator in Cabot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...creates a simple yet powerful discourse on individual choice and identity that offers valuable insight on people from all social and political contexts.Sen presents a cogent theory about the structure of modern society by positing that each person has many ways to define him- or herself—nationality, gender, religion, and ethnicity being among the almost infinite possibilities.The crux of Sen’s argument lies with the idea that “the importance of one identity need not obliterate the importance of others.” Sen writes that, instead, people must exercise discretion...