[17977] in APO-L
Co-ed Fraternity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Costa)
Sun Dec 14 22:34:37 1997
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 22:32:54 -0500
Reply-To: Laura Costa <lcosta@RUNET.EDU>
From: Laura Costa <lcosta@RUNET.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
I personally like the idea of APO being a co-ed fraternity, for reasons
in addition to the obvious: I wouldn't be a brother in this fraternity if
it were still all-male. I like meeting people, especially men and on my
campus where the ratio is 2:1 in favor of the women, it is hard to meet
men, especially when a lot of the men are at least 5 years younger than
me.
The idea of a co-ed fraternity is one thing that attracted me to APO, in
spite of the fact that I was engaged when I pledged. Now that I'm once
again single (and have been for some time), the co-ed nature of the
fraternity has allowed me to meet and date several men, especially within
the last year.
However, I am for the idea of allowing each chapter to decide its own
membership. It's what makes this fraternity work best. I'd hate to lose
chapters because they were forced to accept women.
In LFS,
Laura
