Cover Story Sidebar | Same-sex bathrooms and liberal "visitation" policies are no longer
uncommon at major universities. The University of Massachusetts,
for example, has only three same-sex dorms. The bathrooms in the
co-ed dorms are not shared between men and women, but residents in
any dorm may have guests of either sex stay overnight. There are
some limits to that; after three nights of hosting a guest, a
resident is supposed to wait a couple of weeks before having a
guest again. These policies are not
