According to Silversmith, CLUH opposes stringent gender divisions on the moral grounds that they "imply that physiological differences make students incapable of cohabitating."

But Jewett said that College policy, even as it was altered last year, still limits co-ed housing.

"As I understood things last spring, there would be no actual co-ed rooming per se," Jewett said. "And certainly not coming out of the freshman lottery."

Silversmith agreed that co-ed rooming would only be possible after students were assigned to their houses, and he added that the decision to allow co-ed rooming groups should be left to the discretion of the individual house masters.

"In some cases, men and women are permitted to share bathrooms, and the standard for privacy constitutes a lock on a bedroom door--in other cases, when two bathrooms are available, co-ed groups exist," Silversmith said.

"But the two standards are used interchangeably to suit the varying arguments of the university as they try to maintain their goal of separating men and women at all costs," Silversmith added.

"The next step here is that students are permitted to live together, and that the College elucidates a clear policy so that the masters will understand that it is their prerogative to decide," he said.

CLUH Executive Officer for University Affairs Allan H. Erbsen '94 said that "on-campus resolution of issues of importance to students" was one of the points stressed by Nadine Strossen '72, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a visit to Boston yesterday.

Strossen met with Yalen, Silversmith and Erbsen to discuss strategies for raising consciousness of issues where student rights are at stake.

Strossen plans to use the work of CLUH as a model for other campus civil liberties organizations across the country