[17703] in APO-L
Re: APO discrimination (was BSA discrimination)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Fri Nov 21 11:12:17 1997
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:09:37 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199711210452.XAA10632@beryllium.club.cc.cmu.edu>
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Daniel Roberts wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 19, 1997 9:15 AM, Jason Ross
> [SMTP:jross@MIDAS.MILLCOMM.COM] wrote:
> >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),
>
> Actually as I recall in the late 1970's or so Rose Hulman welcomed as an
> unofficial participant a brother of Alpha Phi Omega who was attending a
> nearby school which did not at that time have a chapter. The Rose Hulman
> crew at the time thought it funny to have a "co-ed" chapter at an all male
> school. My observation was that this young woman was treated with all the
> respect we could ask of brothers towards a transfer member. Obviously she
> could not join officially because she was not a student at Rose.
This doesn't surprise me. Engineering schools in general went co-ed
early. Whether this is becuase Engineers are enlightened people or just
that the gender balance was so far off at these schools that they let
women into the fraternity in order to date them is an open question. :)
Randy
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Leadership, Friendship and Service - Alpha Phi Omega
