It's a touchy subject on campus: 'sexiled' students

When Leslie Lobel was a student at Tufts University in the late 1970s, her dormitory roommates learned a simple code when they wanted to be left alone for a sexual romp:

"There was a Dry Erase board and you would write, 'Come back in 20 minutes.' Sometimes you were locked out, and sometimes you were fortunate enough to be the one locking someone else out." Students did not rely on rules or handbooks to understand they needed to figure out how to navigate one simple equation of freshman life: randy students, minus pesky parents, equals sexual freedom.

But things are different now at Tufts.

This year's batch of dorm dwellers have a new rule to live by: "You may not engage in sexual activity while your roommate is present in the room," says the book on residential life. "Any sexual activity within your assigned room should not ever deprive your roommate(s) of privacy, study or sleep time."

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