[17619] in APO-L
Re: APO discrimination (was BSA discrimination)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Ross)
Wed Nov 19 09:24:38 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:15:12 -0600
Reply-To: Jason Ross <jross@MIDAS.MILLCOMM.COM>
From: Jason Ross <jross@MIDAS.MILLCOMM.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> From: Stallion <librimd@MAIL.AUBURN.EDU>
>
> > Why do the All-Male Chapters put up such a
> > fight?
> Because it is our right, given to us by Frank Reed Horton, H. Roe Bartle,
> and the 1974 National Convention to remain the way we are, and we won't
> give in.
Remember that it is not true that all of the all male chapters think
alike (generalizations are bad). Up until 5 or 6 years ago,
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was an all male school. The Tau
Lambda chapter located there had worded their by-laws such that the
chapter would admit women, it was just that the school didn't. While
many outside the chapter considered the chapter to be all male (and
apply certain stereotypes that go along with that), the members of the
chapter thought differently. Now that the school has gone coed, the
memebership of the chapter reflects the change in the student body.
I feel more strongly about why chapters have membership policies that
cause the makeup of the chapter not to reflect the makeup of the
institution's student body than I do about chapters that happen to be
all-whatever since that is how the pool of possible members is made up.
Jason
Tau Lambda alum
