The lack of guaranteed religious accommodations in this year’s newly standardized housing assignment process has drawn frustration from campus groups, who argue that the new process will compromise the religious expression and mental health of Muslim students.
Such housing accommodations can include having single-gender bathrooms or living on a single-gender floor. In a Yale College Council fall survey, 52 percent of the students who reported that they required housing accommodations for religious or cultural reasons said that they had encountered challenges in securing them. 86 percent of these students had requested to be placed in all-women-identifying bathrooms.
“Not guaranteeing religious accommodations … is either forcing students that need access to single-gendered spaces to live in anxiety-producing spaces and compromise their religious practices, or [having them] move off campus,” Huda Siddiqui ’25 told the News.
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Without single-gender bathrooms, Muslim women cannot remove their hijab, a restriction that also prevents them from participating in wudu, an ablution or purification with water that is performed before daily prayers. During wudu, one wipes the top of their head with their hand, and therefore must first take the hijab off.
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