[15423] in APO-L
Re: I've changed my view. Oh...and pigs can fly.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Italian Stallion)
Sun Nov 10 10:51:09 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 09:49:34 -0600
Reply-To: The Italian Stallion <librimd@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
From: The Italian Stallion <librimd@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.961110021720.21966A-100000@tavarua>
> > The national frat doesn't approve OR disapprove of gender
> > discrimination. They left that up to individual the universitiies and
> > chapters, as it should be.
>
> By the national frat as a whole allowing the all-male chapters to
> exclude women, it is approving sexual discrimination.
No, the National frat is NEUTRAL. The decision to go coed in 1976 was
made not only due to women's rights, but also to appease the campuses
where APhiO was in danger of being shut down because of the school's
gender discrimination policy. The National frat's current view is that
they prefer chapters to be coed, but they respect the rights of the
all-male chapters. As I said previously, they allow the universities to
choose whether or not the individual chapters are being discriminatory.
This is the same as the Federal government remaining neutral with certain
state issues like taxes, speed limits, education policies, etc....
If Washington doesn't set a national speed limit, can someone in
Alabama say that the government is biased because we can drive 70mph on
the highway, but in North Carolina, you can only go 55mph?
Is the Federal Government approving of bias against those of us that
want to go 70? NO! That would be SILLY! They are simply allowing the
states to make their own choices! As is the case with the National frat.
-Delta 1159
Mark Librizzi
