But they do have a creative gripe. Students learn as much from their peers as from their classwork. But the Yale Five are more concerned about the wicked sexual promiscuity and slippery morality in Yale's dormitories. They claim a coed living situation, in which condoms are passed out at dorm-sponsored activities, is an affront to their religious and moral beliefs. The University should be more sensitive, they say.
Requirements are unavoidable.
Academically, students have to conform to certain standards if they wish to receive degrees. While there is plenty of flexibility, universities don't yield to the whimsical academic particulars of every student they happen to accept. And they certainly don't have the resources to bend over backward to address everybody's moral sensitivities. Nor should they want to. If universities went to great lengths to accommodate everyone's moral beliefs, students everywhere would lose.