[17767] in APO-L
Re: All male chapters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Mon Nov 24 14:14:10 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 13:54:09 -0500
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Mike Dow wrote:
>
> I have avoided getting myself into this discussion up till now, but here
> goes nothing. Both of the all-male chapters in section 94 have a sister
> sorority that is all-female. The all-male chapters here take a certain
> pride in the their status as all-male chapters, and I except that. To
> tell a chapter that they have to integrate when there are alternitives is
> not appropriate. No chapter likes having dictates come down from
> nationals on how to run their chapter. It was a right given to those
> chapters, and it is their right to decide when or ever to become co-ed.
>
> Wow, who would have guessed I would be defending Orono and Machias.
I would have... but that's just me... you don't mind them, nor do you
get offended easily.
-John
