College Enacts Rules for Sex in Dorms

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Tufts University in Medford, Mass., is trying to regulate sexual activity in its dorm rooms.

According to the school newspaper The Tufts Daily , the school has instituted a new policy for students with roommates in on-campus housing: No sex while the other roommate is in the room, and no sexual activity should interfere with a roommate's privacy, study, or sleep.

The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) says it is responding to a large number of complaints in recent years about roommates' sexual activities. "There were incidents that occurred last year, and in the past, where residents of rooms started to feel uncomfortable with what their roommates were doing in the room," said ResLife's Assistant Director for Community and Judicial Affairs Carrie Ales-Rich.

Ales-Rich added that she hopes students will be able to resolve the issues on their own and that the policy is intended as a tool to facilitate conversation and compromise between roommates.

Most of the students the newspaper talked to didn't support the policy.

"I think that it is such a personal issue that it should be dealt with between roommates," sophomore Kristen Collins said.

"I don't think it's necessary," freshman Jon Levinson added. "I think they are imposing something that should be decided between roommates."

In 2000, a gay Tufts student lobbied the administration to institute coed dorms claiming that same-sex dorm rooms was forcing them into "tension-filled situations." Even though Tufts shot down the idea, many colleges have begun to allow coed dorms .