AIM Yale Assignment

Tony Cai

AIM 102

College Life verses My Moral Code

1) Hack believes that her traditional moral code is threatened by Yale’s freshmen/sophomore residency requirements. College living culture is not what is wanted by his religion. This can be backed up when he says that his fundamental principals has been taught for as long as he can remember with the Torah going back 3,000 years.

2) A potential solution to the problem is having the university wave the residential requirements however Yale has a strict policy. Yale is justified in that they want freshmen and sophomores to live on campus so they can be acquainted with the new environment. If no other freshmen or sophomore can have the right to live off campus then, there should be no reason for people of a certain religion to live off campus.

3) They could claim that they have stuck with the strict guidelines of their religion for all these years, and they are about to break it when entering the university.

4) If a sexual living setting is not suitable for certain groups of people, they should still be living on campus but in another location where all parties agree on the same things.

Yale is one of the top colleges of the United States and living conditions should be one of those less concerned subjects. During the 1950’s, it was prohibited to have an opposite sex enter your dorm room, however cultural values have changed and now, there is no policy to restrict that. This does not mean that the university encourages it at all; in fact, males and females are placed on different floors. It is each individual that chooses to enter a room of another gender and if society accepts it, then it is okay as long as there is no definite rule that prohibits it.

Yale’s own “residential religion” has an anything goes policy. Yale argues that an individual’s sexual morality is none of the university’s concern and in today’s society it shouldn’t be. To promote safe sex, Yale provides condoms which seem to be a concern for Hack, he believes that they are promoting sex. This is not so, with sexual freedom, if one were to engage in sex, they should at least have safe sex rather than not being protected at all. Yale recognizes the inconveniences that their residential policies might have however they cannot just establish a policy against the culturally accepted idea of sexual freedom for the sake of a certain religious group. I think this is a situation of “majority rules”. I’m pretty sure the majority will reject the ban of sexual freedom in today’s society.