[17687] in APO-L
Re: APO discrimination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (High Lord of Chaos)
Thu Nov 20 21:15:05 1997
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 18:12:37 -0800
Reply-To: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
From: High Lord of Chaos <hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> > One part of the chapter being allowed to choose it's own membership
> > confuses me since new chapters must be co-ed if based at a co-ed campus.
> > Why don't new chapters get the right to choose to be single-sexed if
> > they choose too? And that also applies to rechartering groups of
> > formerly all male chapters. And isn't there something in the National
> > By-Laws that says chapters can't discriminate against someone based on sex,
> > race, etc?
> You have answered your own question here. The reason why new and
> re-chartered chapters are co-ed is because the National Membership
> Policies states that "active membership is open to all students" This is
> a policy that does not apply to the All Male Chapters. Chapters who were
> chartered before 1976 and remained active were given the choice of
> remaining All Male or becoming Co-Ed. If they choose to remain All
> Male, then they are considered "Grandfathered" and are not required to
> conform to the "new" Membership Policy. Any chapters chartered or
> re-chartered after 1976 has to follow the "new" Membership Policy of
> having open membership.
I knew exactly what I was asking and did it to illustrate the duplicity
of the by-laws.
> > I believe that it's time for chapters to stop hiding behind the Resolution
> > of 1976 (aka the Grandfather Clause) to discriminate against half of
> > their student body. The fraternity as a whole can only benefit from
> > having all students at all US colleges and universities be allowed to
> > join APhiO if they choose to do so. And no Brother should be denied
> > active membership at any chapter based solely on gender.
> I think it would do more harm than good to force a chapter to go Co-Ed.
> As several represantives from All Male chapters have stated, they will
> turn in their letters before their chapter becomes Co-Ed. Do we want to
> alienate our Brothers in this manner? Can you assure me that the Co-Ed
> chapter that takes its place will be a stronger chapter?
If that's what they feel they have to do, then so be it. If they feel that
by being all-male they are superior to a co-ed chapter, then they can do
whatever they feel they must do. Can you assure me that by including
females it will make the chapter weaker? I'm sure there are a whole bunch
of females on those campuses that will make as good, better and worse
Brothers, just like the males on that same campus.
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