[19296] in APO-L
Re: An all-male idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ham)
Wed Oct 7 02:14:49 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:19:48 +1000
Reply-To: David Ham <david.a.ham@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU>
From: David Ham <david.a.ham@STUDENT.ANU.EDU.AU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Richard Quodomine, Thomas Register Rep. on Long Island wrote:
>
> > Brothers all,
>
> > Second, while single sex chapters should exist at single sex colleges, I don't
> > feel that they should at coed and hope everyone who agrees votes at the
> > National this year
>
> No! We made a bond, and we have to live with it.
If I might venture an opinion from the outside. There is a sort of
similar position here concerning single-sex Scout Groups (including
Rover Crews at universities). Individual groups decide whether to be
single sex or mixed but cannot become single sex once they are mixed.
The important difference which might be a solution for APO is that the
possibility is always there to start another crew with broader
membership requirements.
To put it simply, to form another crew at ANU, another group of people
would only have to go through the steps we did:- our presence here has
no impact on this. While I can see advantages to the APO policy of one
chapter per campus, it might solve the obvious problem of all male
chapters - that females can't join - if an exception was made to this
rule in the case of universities which have single sex chapters. This
solution would obviously have the advantage of allowing the single sex
chapters to continue.
Just to completely declare one's hand, the experience here is that
people vote with their feet and choose to join the mixed groups but
presumably if there is something especially great being a single-sex
chapter, this won't be a problem. In possible betrayal of my good social
democratic roots, I suggest to you: let the market decide.
YiS
David
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David Ham
Student of Maths and Law, 31 Bambridge Street
The Australian National University Weetangera
Crew Leader, Harcourt Hill Rover Crew ANU ACT 2614
Canberra, Australia Australia
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
