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Essay / Advantages and disadvantages of shared accommodation - 1012
Although the numbers are not in favor of co-ed dorms quoting Aristotle, “Garvey said it was the responsibility of the educator to cultivate virtue, and out of good ethics would come good learning. »(Aristotle, Garvey). From this quote we get the impression that having people of the same gender in the same building does not create an environment. Instructors can determine what type of environment students will live in on campus. There is too much emphasis on dorms and single-sex behavior, as noted in the article Coed vs. Non-Coed Dorms by Rudy Miller: “One perpetrator said he was monitoring a single-sex residence hall at Garvey Catholic University where male students set furniture on fire. , broke the windows and urinated everywhere. (Miller). Some of the claims that binge drinking occurs more in mixed dorms are unfair according to Pulitzer Prize winner Laura Sessions Stepp, who says "she sees no evidence that women in mixed dorms are more prone to to excessive alcohol consumption because they live in dormitories with men. » Miller, Stepp). Laura Stepp also argues that heredity and family environment contribute more to alcohol abuse. This academic journal evokes the idea that housing conditions have little to do with