[15512] in APO-L
Re: all male chapters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dawn Mariko Lester)
Tue Nov 12 16:57:30 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:50:03 -0600
Reply-To: Dawn Mariko Lester <dmlester@ARTSCI.WUSTL.EDU>
From: Dawn Mariko Lester <dmlester@ARTSCI.WUSTL.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199611121941.NAA20521@artsci.wustl.edu>
After listening to this debate for a while, I think my thoughts are
coherent enough to put to paper (or keyboard).
On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Laura A Costa wrote:
> chapterto make the decision to go co-ed. If the chapter chooses to
> remain all-male on a co-ed campus and there is an equivalent organization
> for women, then so be it! We are not active brothers in that chapter, so
> therefore, it is not our right to tell them what to do.
> However, if there is no equivalent organization on the co-ed campus, then
> APO does need to go co-ed because this is discriminating against women.
> Or the women can start their own sorority or whatever which is equivalent
> to APO. The women on the campus who want the opportunity to live by the
> APO (or Gamma Sigma Sigma or OPhiA) principles should have every right to
> do so.
> In LFS,
> Laura
I totally agree with Laura on this one. It is impossible for anyone to
understand the different circumstances at _every_ school where there is an
all-male chapter. Therefore we have no right to tell them what to do. It
is up to the women at each campus to put pressure on that's school's
chapter to go coed, or to form a chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma or OPhiA or
whatever. If the women are content without being brothers in APhiO, then
leave that chapter alone. I have no experience with GSS or OPhiA, so I
don't know if they're equivalent. But it isn't for us to decide if other
people are content with the situation when we don't even know them.
Dawn Lester
Alpha Phi chapter
p.s. IMHO, if I was offered the chance to be a "little sister" (the way I
understand the description), I wouldn't want to fulfill all the
requirements a pledge did and then be denied brotherhood. Is that the way
it works?
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