[15379] in APO-L
all-male chapters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michele Costabile Doney)
Fri Nov 8 12:07:50 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:01:51 -0500
Reply-To: Michele Costabile Doney <costabil@PILOT.MSU.EDU>
From: Michele Costabile Doney <costabil@PILOT.MSU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hi all,
Some of the comments that have been made in the last 24 hrs concerning
single-sex chapters remind me an awful lot of the secessionist attitudes of
southern states circa the mid 1800s, for reasons which IMHO are just as
invalid. In addition, other commends remind me an awful lot of the
separate-but-equal attitude that brought us separate water fountains,
bathrooms, and seating on busses in the earlier part of this century. Is it
really THAT important to you to not have women in your chapters?
Having said that, I'd like to request clarification on something. For a
chapter to be all male, would this status HAVE to have been in place BEFORE the
1976 national convention? Are there any chapters which went all-male AFTER
this convention? If so, would the same right be afforded a group of women who
wanted to form a single-sex chapter? Are there any all-female chapters of APO?
One last comment, which I think reflects positively on the organization: I
received a number of responses to my requestion re:sexism, some on-list but
most privately. Not a single one reported sexism existing in any chapter,
including my own (I left it in 1993 and there appears to have been considerable
change, which I was overjoyed to hear). This is wonderful news.
-- Michele
Costabile Doney costabil@pilot.msu.edu
"Gecko... wasn't he the REALLY quiet Marx brother?" --CH
