Comments on: Sexiled in the 21st Century http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2009/10/sexiled-in-the-21st-century/ A Blog of Musings and Mockery Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:56:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2009/10/sexiled-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-11686 Ben Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:25:54 +0000 http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/?p=1310#comment-11686 For my Master's degree, I created an application that helps undergraduate students create the optimum course schedule for the upcoming semester (based on when classes are really offered) that satisfies their degree requirements. Clearly the Tufts edition will need to help the user create a gap between classes, shared with the user's girlfriend, when the user's roommate is still in class. Problem solved! Technology: is there anything it can't do? For my Master’s degree, I created an application that helps undergraduate students create the optimum course schedule for the upcoming semester (based on when classes are really offered) that satisfies their degree requirements.

Clearly the Tufts edition will need to help the user create a gap between classes, shared with the user’s girlfriend, when the user’s roommate is still in class. Problem solved!

Technology: is there anything it can’t do?

]]> By: Ben http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2009/10/sexiled-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-11685 Ben Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:24:16 +0000 http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/?p=1310#comment-11685 The policy's two sentences are imposing two separate restrictions. First, quoting directly, you may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room. As you said: period, no exceptions. Second, even when your roommate <em>isn't</em> in the room, your sexual activity still can't deprive them of sleep or study time. In other words, sexiling your roommate doesn't solve the underlying problem. The policy’s two sentences are imposing two separate restrictions. First, quoting directly, you may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room. As you said: period, no exceptions.

Second, even when your roommate isn’t in the room, your sexual activity still can’t deprive them of sleep or study time.

In other words, sexiling your roommate doesn’t solve the underlying problem.

]]> By: just pixels http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/2009/10/sexiled-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-11649 just pixels Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:31:17 +0000 http://blog.benjaminfenster.com/?p=1310#comment-11649 I guess Tufts felt the roommate/victim could not simply say "get a <i>different</i> room you two". Of course that presumes <i>two</i> which may be my own cultural bias. Perhaps the real problem is people engaging in sexual activity by themselves (except for the roommate). There's an ambiguity to the policy as quoted. "You may not engage...." PERIOD, no exceptions. But then it's qualified only to situations that deprive sleep, etc. I suppose a policy -- if there must be one -- should say you shouldn't do <i>anything</i> that has those effects on your roommate. Then there's the challenge of defining sexual activity. As in, "I did not have sex with that woman ... Miss Lewinsky". Hilarity ensues. I guess Tufts felt the roommate/victim could not simply say “get a different room you two”. Of course that presumes two which may be my own cultural bias. Perhaps the real problem is people engaging in sexual activity by themselves (except for the roommate).

There’s an ambiguity to the policy as quoted. “You may not engage….” PERIOD, no exceptions. But then it’s qualified only to situations that deprive sleep, etc. I suppose a policy — if there must be one — should say you shouldn’t do anything that has those effects on your roommate.

Then there’s the challenge of defining sexual activity. As in, “I did not have sex with that woman … Miss Lewinsky”. Hilarity ensues.

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