[15444] in APO-L
Re: all-male chapters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Cashman)
Mon Nov 11 09:50:01 1996
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:46:09 -0500
Reply-To: "Derek J. Cashman" <dcashman@CONCENTRIC.NET>
From: "Derek J. Cashman" <dcashman@CONCENTRIC.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Bravely and without regard to personal injury, John Grossi
<jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM> wrote:
> There are chapters that are all-female through no fault of there own.
(fact)
> They want men, they just can't recruit them. (through no lack of trying
on
> there part) Now let's assume R-8 passes at this convention. It's
targetted at
> the all-male chapters. The thing is that these, all-female chapters will
also
> get caught in it. So R-7 and R-8 have a broader reach than there original
> intention (of forcing the co-ed issue). Possibly I'm mis-interpreting
something
> but... I would say that possibly as much as 20% of our chapters could be
nuked
> under a broad interpretation of R-8.
That is not necessarily the case. The proposal would prohibit chapters
from limiting their membership to males-only. As long as the chapter
remained open to admit women, they would not be in violation of the
by-laws. For example, the chapters that are currently all-female, are not
so by choice, just by the fact that they cannot recruit men. They would
still welcome any male pledges or transfer brothers into their chapter, and
thus are not in violation of the national by-laws. I don't see any
difference between this and current all-male chapters if this proposal
passes.
The only problem I see is that it does create a small "loophole" in that
the all-male chapters can merely claim that they have tried to open their
membership to women, while no women were interested, they were forced to
remain all-male. It's a loophole that may not last, but I just wanted to
point this out...
Derek J. Cashman (dcashman@concentric.net)
Alumni; Alpha Beta Omega Chapter (odu)
Alpha Phi Omega
