[15384] in APO-L
Re: All-male
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Fri Nov 8 14:55:18 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 13:53:23 -0600
Reply-To: Robert Dean <rdean@RS6000.CMP.ILSTU.EDU>
From: Robert Dean <rdean@RS6000.CMP.ILSTU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9611081757.AA02636@heartland> from "High Lord of Chaos" at Nov 8,
96 09:54:50 am
> > Actually, the section is decidedly vague, and is open to interpretation.
> > Based on that alone, you cannot derive a requirement of coeducation.
> But in that vagueness, can you derive permission to discriminate based on
> gender?
Discrimination is an ugly word that has taken on a bad connotation.
Remember that we used to be an all-male fraternity, and the 1976 Convention
voted to allow those that wanted to change that ability.
That being said, there isn't anything in the bylaws which states that a
chapter can't choose to remain as the Fraternity as a whole once was, at
least in this respect.
My objection is not on the basis of anything but the compromise (promise)
that was reached at the 1976 convention. We're bound by that promise. I do
object to forcing a chapter to change their ways on the basis of political
correctness, but I'm that's not my formal objection.
LFS,
Robert
