Days after a Rutgers University student secretly used a webcam to record his roommate having a sexual encounter with another man, the roommate leapt to his death from the George Washington Bridge. Now the student who did the taping has been indicted on hate-crimes charges.

Rutgers's logic-defying response to this tragic suicide? Ensuring that roommates are more compatible by offering "gender-neutral" dorms that will allow students to share rooms with those of the opposite sex.

After...