We note the strange situation at Yale. The background: freshman student Elisha Dov Hack enrolls and is reminded (he knew about such arrangements beforehand) that he is expected to occupy living quarters one flight above, one below, living quarters occupied by Yale coeds.
Now theoretically a flight of stairs between Gentlemen and Ladies is as impermeable as the markings that distinguish Men from Women in hotel or airport lavatories. But young Mr. Hack, who is an Orthodox Jew, objects in principle to the sexual proximity of such arrangements and empirically to the renowned permeability of upstairs-downstairs college lodgings. So what did he do?
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