I find it highly amusing that a Mormon newspaper editorializing on a study by a Mormon university on DRINKING and CO-ED DORMS would have any credence whatsoever.

It's hard to know whether to trust the "research" conducted by BYU since the article does not give any detailed information about how the study was conducted. Simply because it was published does not necessarily mean that it was conducted well….I would like to see the questions that were asked, etc. rather than simply listen to a Mormon newspaper quote which obviously is a biased source about the topic.

Binge drinking and "hook-up" culture is a problem at the college level, but frankly it's not new. I lived in a single sex dorm for the 1st 2 years of college and it didn't stop either thing way back then. The world should not be viewed in such stark, black & white terms. There are many more factors involved for the problems and it's naive and silly to think that all the problems will be solved by separating men and women….

Also, my DD is currently in a coed dorm and she says it's a perfectly normal set-up of people. Some people are big partiers and others are not. It has nothing to do with the living situation. Now…she has been raised to be friends with boys and not be afraid of them so she wouldn't be uncomfortable in this scenario. Most people who are uncomfortable with it are, in my experience, rather repressed or have been raised in a way which believes the mixing of the sexes is taboo or shameful...

All the drinking on my schools campus always went on at the bars surrounding it or off campus housing, not sure what they think this will stop.

Anonymous wrote:A study by Brigham Young University in 2009, published in The Journal of American College Health, found a connection between coed dorms and binge drinking. The study surveyed 510 students at five universities and found that those in coed dorms were 2½ times more likely to engage in binge drinking than those in same-sex dorms.

Casual drinking also follows the same trend. In coed dorms, 56 percent said they drank some alcohol weekly, compared with 27 percent in same-gender dorms.

The study also found the results weren’t indicative of self-selection. In other words, the partyers weren’t asking to live in coed dorms. In most cases, universities simply assigned students where to live.

The study’s results were not unique. As John Garvey, the president of The Catholic University of America, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, several studies point to binge drinking rates being twice as high in coed dorms as in single-sex housing


Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3433/Hard-liquor-ban-is-good-start-but-public-schools-also-need-return-to-single-sex-dorms.html#vfyVG6sOhhOfH4F5.99

I read that. What I meant was more like: why did they even think of doing that study? Where's the logical connection? Why would people in single sex dorms be less likely to binge drink?

Anonymous wrote:Your personal stories are always interesting, but you can't dispute the numbers.

What do you think the Brigham Young Study is made up of, other than personal stories?

Schools who want to curb binge drinking should be lenient with marijuana.

A study by Brigham Young University in 2009, published in The Journal of American College Health, found a connection between coed dorms and binge drinking. The study surveyed 510 students at five universities and found that those in coed dorms were 2½ times more likely to engage in binge drinking than those in same-sex dorms.

Casual drinking also follows the same trend. In coed dorms, 56 percent said they drank some alcohol weekly, compared with 27 percent in same-gender dorms.

The study also found the results weren’t indicative of self-selection. In other words, the partyers weren’t asking to live in coed dorms. In most cases, universities simply assigned students where to live.

The study’s results were not unique. As John Garvey, the president of The Catholic University of America, wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 2011, several studies point to binge drinking rates being twice as high in coed dorms as in single-sex housing


Read more at http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3433/Hard-liquor-ban-is-good-start-but-public-schools-also-need-return-to-single-sex-dorms.html#vfyVG6sOhhOfH4F5.99

I don't get it, where does the connection between co-ed dorms and binge drinking even come from?

Anonymous wrote:Your personal stories are always interesting, but you can't dispute the numbers.

But are the numbers related to co-ed living? I would guess not. Greek life, which is generally single-sex living, has a huge reputation for binge drinking.

On my campus, circa 1985, the all-men's dorm was the epicenter of binge drinking. And you could stand outside the all-women's dorm any day around 8am and watch the guys leaving.

Your personal stories are always interesting, but you can't dispute the numbers.

I lived in a single sex dorm my freshman year of college. Certainly did not curb the binge drinking.

I don't think so, OP. I know plenty of girls' schools with serious drinking issues. Even boarding schools.

So says a Mormon newspaper, eh?

http://national.deseretnews.com/article/3433/hard-liquor-ban-is-good-start-but-public-schools-also-need-return-to-single-sex-dorms.html

Interesting editorial. Can't say I disagree. Whoever thought it was a good idea to put 18/ 19 year old males and females who are living away from home for the first time in coed housing situations, was nuts.