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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
How do you feel about identity based housing?
I feel it is antiquated and creates an environment that fosters hostility and fear on a campus. I think that if you NEED certain facilities in your house that are "identity based" such as a kosher sink, that is one thing, but to allow the option of choosing an identity that you share with others and living that way is just perpetuating the idea that people of more than one "identity" can't live together. It creates an environment of discrimination and pushes the idea that mixed races shouldn't live in one house. I think unless the identity is one that all people can share and connect with, isolating it and only allowing a select group of people to join does more harm than good, and can lead to housing biases and hostility on campus