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Coeducation My son became a college student at UC Berkeley and started living in a dormitory there last fall. The other day, I visited him at the dorm and was stunned.... I went out to the hallway to go to the bathroom and saw the sign. I thought it was odd because it had both man and woman symbols. I assumed that the bathroom had one entrance, but the inside was divided into two. A woman was getting out of it, so I felt better and entered it.Then, my eyes caught a man looking at himself in the mirror. His upper body was bare with a towel around his waist. He was spraying a deodorant on his armpits.“Gee, I made a mistake.” Trying to get out of there, I looked at another person next to him, which was a woman. She seemed to have just finished her shower, wrapping her hair in a towel. She was putting lotion on her face. “Wow, this is a real coed bathroom,” I was so amazed. My son also said, “Yeah, I was first surprised, too, but I got used to it.” The people I saw in the bathroom behaved as if nothing had happened. “When living together in a dorm, everybody is like a family,” my son said. Surely, this place felt like a home, and everybody was friendly, greeting to each other, “Hi.” Anyway, it was astonishing to see such a very advanced form of coeducation. A mother and graduate of a girl’s school |