Since the University administration wouldn’t let us live in gender-neutral housing, we created our own, with a dozen students sleeping in tents out in the snow on the Cross Campus quad!
Nearly four dozen students came out to last night to support the protest against the Yale administration’s lack of action in rectifying Yale’s discriminatory housing policies! Mary Miller, Dean of Yale College, came outside to meet with the protesters early this morning to discuss the situation.
“Last night, after Yale University administrators backed down from a plan to implement gender-neutral housing for the 2009-10 school year, over a dozen students braved the freezing weather to stage an outdoor ‘Sleep-in’. Setting up tents in the snow and ice of Yale’s Cross Campus quad, with signs that read “The Only Gender Neutral Housing at Yale”, members of the group Students for Housing Equality at Yale tenaciously demonstrated the need for an immediate change in policy. Afters years of hesitation, as other Ivy League universities have adopted inclusive housing policies, Yale administrators continue to lag behind.”
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