Post-Parietal

Fifty years ago, Yale announced it would go coed.  About time, I guess, but could anyone guess how relations between the sexes would evolve over the decades?

For so many years, students didn't want the university to serve in loco parentis.  The young people wanted to be in charge of their own lives--and love lives.

But things have changed so much that the progressives who used to demand more freedom are now demanding stricter rules about how men and women (or any couples) can interact.

And the government is giving it to them.  Who thought they'd make a federal case out of it?  Using questionable statistics to back up their argument, they're demanding not only that campuses keep a close eye on relationships, but that they also don't have what would normally be considered basic due process is figuring out what to do when someone is charged with a transgression.

Has anyone yet argued that, in fact, young men and women can't live in close proximity, and it's time to go back to the old days of sexual segregation?