[15347] in APO-L
Re: As an Eagle must fly, so must we.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Echlov)
Thu Nov 7 21:17:38 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:16:16 -0500
Reply-To: Elliot Echlov <cfknights@INFOAVE.NET>
From: Elliot Echlov <cfknights@INFOAVE.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> There are good reasons why all male chapters shouldn't go be
>forced to go co-ed. One of the first is tradition, which is the case at
>my chapter at least.
IMHO, tradition is a horrible justification for retention of anything. Just
because it "has always been that way" doesn't necessarily mean it should
continue to be that way.
Having said that, it may sound as if I am opposed to all-male chapters.
Nothing could be further from the truth. What I am in favor of is allowing
each chapter in existence prior to the 1976 convention to determine for
itself, within the context of what is allowed by the fraternity as a whole,
whether or not to remain all-male or to go co-ed. If the chapter is able to
sustain itself, like Gamma Lambda, Delta, and Kappa Delta have done, then
let it continue.
If however, a chapter is in danger of folding, and must choose whether or
not to go co-ed, I would much rather see the chapter accept women than die.
There are a great many chapters alive today because they made that decision.
Tau made that decision a few years back, and though it struggled for a few
semesters after going co-ed (internal politics more than anything else), it
is alive and kicking today.
To choose "death" opposes everything this fraternity was founded upon.
Since a rechartering would result in a co-ed chapter anyway, why choose that
option?
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