You asked for it and you may soon be getting it: The co-ed college dorm room. Yes, a trend of boys and girls cohabitating is sweeping select college campuses on the east coast and it’s moving due west. I, for one, am in favor.

Imagine: One guy and one girl living in one tiny dorm room on two agonizingly small twin extra-long beds. Our Awkward Evaders are trembling in their stiletto-outfitted shoes at the probability for gauche moments. You’d think it would be impossible for a guy and a girl to live together without feelings developing into something more. Since cohabitation happens in off-campus housing situations like houses and apartments, why can’t we practice while we’re young and still living in the dorms?

Why do I think co-ed dorm rooms should be an option on undergraduate housing contracts? Freshman year, I was placed on East Green with the world’s most atrocious random roommate. (If you’re reading this, I love you anyway and I’ll never forget you). I won’t go into detail, but she and her boyfriend made my stay quite unfortunate for two excruciatingly long months until I escaped to a converted broom closet on South Green. (But that’s an entirely different story).

Oh revenge.

Anyway, in this case, it couldn’t have gotten much worse. If she had been a guy, the roommate drama wouldn’t have happened. Guys are so much more chill (a.k.a. relaxed) than most girls. Obvi. The probability for having all-out bitchfests is so much less likely. Like you haven’t.

Like you haven’t thought about what it would be like to live with a member of the opposite sex. Platonic relationships between girls and guys really do exist. I can prove it. Call me. Just because two members of the opposite sex live in one dorm room does not mean that friends with benefits or feelings would inevitably develop into something more promiscuous than their “just friends” relationship status. As I thought about the possibilities, I got more curious.

I decided to take a little field trip to the housing office located in Chubb Hall. I tracked down an Ohio University housing representative to ask her about the co-ed dorm room movement hitting college campuses. Before I could even finish my question, she laughed at the idea of having members of the opposite sex living together in one room here at OU. A big, emphatic “no” was the answer I received. Something about ethical conflicts or something. Blah blah blah. I don’t think she believed me when I told her Ohio’s very own Oberlin College has decided to offer co-ed dorm rooms as a housing option next year. Google it, duh.

The next day, a more informed housing representative called me to say that co-ed dorm rooms did not fit the “university’s current climate.” Laugh out loud. Ten bucks says discussion of the trend will now be on the agenda at the housing department’s next meeting. Shock. Horror. Whatever.

I’m thinking co-ed dorm rooms could have a funny downside. I enter a quote from The Daily Pennsylvanian: "I was talking to my dad about [living with my guy friend], and his only concern was that I might have to toilet-train the guys," said Talena Liu, a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. "They seem clean; they'll put the seat down and stuff, and that's all I'm asking for." She seized her school’s gender-neutral housing option. She’ll be fine after she invests in Lysol disinfectant wipes and some Febreze.

So get ready, OU, because change is coming whether the OU housing department knows it or not. If it can happen at Oberlin, the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon and Brown University, it can happen here. The Movement is coming to college campuses near you faster than Barack Obama can secure the Democratic Party’s nomination.

Obvi, it’s been real. See you at the OSU vs. OU game on September 6. (O-H — let’s not go down that road again — I-O). In the meantime, stalk, text and covet me. Like you haven’t already.

Emily Smith is a senior marketing major. Send her your best “Roommate from Hell” story at es303004@ohio.edu.