In a front-page article on March 15, 2010, the Los Angeles Times explored the growing acceptance of mixed-gender rooms in California and throughout the country. The Times article covered a diverse cross-section of California colleges and universities—from the University of California-Berkeley to Harvey Mudd and Pitzer Colleges. Co-founder and Associate Director, Jeffrey Chang, was quoted: “College students are adults […] they have every single right to choose the person they feel most comfortable living with.” Several media outlets joined the conversation, including the Washington Post and the Huffington Post.

Students at Columbia University recently took on Fox News to reiterate, once again, the compelling rationale for gender neutral policy. In less than four and half minutes of discussion, even the student selected by Fox to advocate for the status quo said that a housing policy with increased student options actually makes a whole lot of sense: “We’re in college; it’s a chance for us to make reasonable decisions, to make our own decisions.”