[15574] in APO-L
Re: "Itallion Stallion"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oz, the Great and Terrible,)
Wed Nov 13 17:48:34 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 17:43:26 -0500
Reply-To: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Bravely and without thought to personal injury, The Italian Stallion said:
> > Again, "separate but equal" isn't exactly constitutional. Do the women drink
> > out of different water fountains too, and sit on the back of the bus?
> No, but do we share restrooms? No? Why?
Where our chapter meets? Yes, we do. There is one bathroom on the bottom
floor of the Environmental Sciences Building (where we meet), and everyone
uses that bathroom.
> > Discrimination is harmful and diminishes us all. Several brothers on APO-L
> > have expressed extreme concern with chapters that discriminate against
> > women, so I'd say you are doing harm.
> If you look into this, its not discrimination. Its simply guys wanting
> to hang with guys, not as much guys not wanting to hang with girls.
Sorry to sound like a broken record, but to exclude a person from
membership solely because they belong to a given class (in this case, the
female gender) _is_, by definition, discrimination.
Without some compelling reason (one stronger than a call to tradition), it
is morally wrong to discriminate on the basis of gender; and, in a student
organization that receives funding (direct or indirect) from a school that
receives federal funding, it is illegal.
YiLFS,
Charlie Smith
Pledge Trainer and Parlimentarian
Gamma Zeta
Georgia Institute of Technology
--
"[The] whole struggle in this country to give equal rights and equal
privileges to all citizens of the United States has been an unpopular one;
that we have been forced to struggle against passions and prejudices
engendered by generations of wrong and oppression."
Sen. Henry Wilson (R) c.1868
