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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Beginning next fall, Virginia Tech is allowing opposite-sex roommates to live together for the first time.
The pilot program will allow for "flexible housing" or "gender-neutral" housing in two residence halls on the Blacksburg campus.
The Roanoke Times reports (http://bit.ly/1z0VQtL) that the option has in recent years been implemented at George Mason University and at some private schools in the state.
But Virginia Tech housing officials say the state's public colleges and universities have been slow to join the trend.
The program will allow students 18 years or older applying for on-campus housing to request a roommate of their choice, regardless of gender.
Virginia Tech has had co-ed dormitories for decades but until now students had been unable to live in the same room as someone of the opposite sex.
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