Campus should stop gender/sexuality segregation

I graduated from the Ph.D. program in psychology at UB in 1992. Last week, I was back on campus to visit my dissertation chairperson for the first time in years and I happened to read your column in The Spectrum about room draw, sexual orientation and gender at UB ("It worked for Will and Grace," Silas Rader, Oct. 21). Your points were very accurate. Gender and sexual orientation shouldn't be factors in room draw. Compatibility, shared values and friendship should be.

And, yes, isn't it ironic that I could have lived with my boyfriend on campus if I'd been an undergraduate, but my straight woman friends could not have roomed with their boyfriends? And how frustrating that the several "Graces" in this Will's life couldn't have lived with me, however much we might have wanted to. Maybe if we stop segregating based on gender and sexuality, the way the recently-deceased Rosa Parks led us to stop doing in terms of ethnicity, we might finally live in an enlightened society.