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Limited Thematic Housing Options for Next Year

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Snipes described RLO’s process of working with students to determine what GIH looks like on campus.

“We’ve had focus groups, and we’ve heard students say, ‘Oh, that’s a great idea, but I don’t want to live there. But you should have it, but I don’t want to live there. And when we ask, ‘Why don’t you want to live there?’ [students say] ‘I don’t want people to know, or I don’t feel comfortable,’” Snipes said.

The GIH program will be offered again for the 2024-2025 school year and will come to fruition upon receiving sufficient applications.

The Sustainability Cooperative will also be offered again for the 2024-2025 school year in Knox Dormitory, however current members do not agree with the decision to change locations.

“The Coop is a space that is radically inclusive due to its separation from campus (a campus that can feel incredibly isolating for marginalized students), emphasis on community-building, and freedom and comfortability in a space that is ‘yours,’” current members of the Coop wrote in a statement regarding future housing.

Patel emphasized the community fostered by the house on 439 North Main Street.

“The Susty Coop, while not an explicitly queer space, has historically acted as a space for queer and trans students to escape to,” Patel said. “Currently, the Coop is majority queer/trans students, and I personally have found a lot of belonging with my peers.”

Vee Mellberg ‘25 (they/she) is non-binary and lived in the Coop for the 2022-2023 school year.

“Without [GIH] housing, these students are forced to choose one side or the other when the whole point of our identity is that we do not fit into those two boxes,” Mellberg said.

“It can be incredibly invalidating to be forced to pick, and it reinforces that Davidson doesn’t care about who we are as people, we’re just numbers that they get to use to up their diversity statistics.”

Mellberg added that the loss of GIH on campus may impact student wellbeing.

“Next year, I imagine that students like myself will not feel wanted or supported by Davidson’s policies,” they said. “It is not a new feeling for us but it is incredibly disheartening. I don’t think Davidson staff and administration fully understands the extent to which this will effect student’s mental health in a very real way.

Although the Sustainability Cooperative nor GIH will be offered as housing options next school year, Snipes stressed that accommodations could still be made for students seeking GIH.

“Students still can come to us saying, ‘Hey, here’s how my identity impacts housing,’ we’re going to work with them,” Snipes said. “Because at the end of the day, we want students to feel like, ‘when I go to my room, I can be me,’ because it’s a very intimate place.”