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As a District mediation board decides whether Catholic University’s same-sex dorms violate the city’s Human Rights Act, we’ll leave it to the university’s student-run newspaper to help determine whether or not the segregated dorms actually prevent binge drinking and hook-ups, as administrators hope.

The Tower reports:

When it comes to the party and hook-up scene, the majority of students feel that living in single-sex residence halls doesn’t have any effect on it. Amy Farris, a sophomore history major and resident of Camilier, summed up the feelings of most students when she said, “It really doesn’t make a difference. If people are into that kind of thing, they’re going to do it whether they live in a single-sex residence hall or not.”

However, it does seem as though some students feel that living in a single-sex dorm actually adds pressure to participate in unsafe behavior. O’Donnell explained that he actually feels “more pressure to binge drink” being surrounded by all boys.

Strange also felt the same pressure living in an all-girls residence hall. She says that “a bunch of girls together are worse with that stuff anyways” as they put more pressure on each other to go out to parties or bars.

That’s probably not what Catholic University officials had in mind, huh?