[15674] in APO-L
Re: title IX and lawsuit on a chapter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Tue Nov 19 08:06:43 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 08:04:14 EST
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@MU.BBN.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: from "Derek J. Cashman" at Nov 18, 96 5:42 pm
>
> Roger Lee Stearns Jr. added the following to the highly esteemed
> archives of APO-L:
>
> > I'm pretty sure that social fraternity/sorority's were exempt from
> > Title IX. However there are some schools that require their socials
> > to be co-ed.
>
> As far as I know, all Social Greek Organizations (i.e. Fraternities and
> Sororities) that are members of their respective
> Inter-Fraternity/Sorority Councils are exempt from Title IX, due to the
> fact that there is a "counterpart" organization for members of the
> opposite sex to join. At Old Dominion, I do know that individual
Sorry to dredge up a thankfully dead topic but; three seperate words
Derek; Gamma Sigma Sigma
> fraternities and sororities receive NO FUNDING from the state (i.e.
> student activities), and are funded through the
> inter-fraternity/sorority councils. I currently do not know of any
> schools that require their fraternities and sororities to be co-ed,
> although it may be different in that state. This is the way it is in
> Virginia.
An example from my section:
Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont requires all of it's
fraternities to be co-ed and do service. They are all residential in
nature. I worked with a group there about two semesters ago. (for the
curious; the group and APO parted ways as we had different goals)
-John
