[19426] in APO-L
Re: All Male/ Courts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jrhmdtraum@AOL.COM)
Wed Oct 21 16:12:23 1998
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:10:54 EDT
Reply-To: Jrhmdtraum@AOL.COM
From: Jrhmdtraum@AOL.COM
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In a message dated 10/21/98 4:52:39 AM, you wrote:
<< And in case you need a law, look no further than State University of
New York Policy, supported by the state, and court tested, whihc in 1982
established fraternal presence again on the State University of New York
Campuses, despite protests to the contrary. While maybe some courts have
overturned some fraternities, mot cases were probably thrown out before they
got there? Why? Because the courts have better things to do than decide if
fraternities and sororities, long held traditions in Amerian Higher Academic
Life, should be co-ed. The truth: Many judges were fraternity or sorority
members. They probably would take a look at a dumb case like forcing the
nation's largest Service Fraternity into Co-ed chapters and say the
following.>>
Again, the fraternities allowed are "live-in" frats or are athletic teams
where there are moral or health reasons to leave single sex. They are not
social or service fraternities without a house. There are NO cases in any
district where the court has allowed single sex organizations without the
moral or health reasons. Especially, when there are business contacts made
which I would bet all alumni have made in APO.
1. There are less than 10% of chapters left who are all-male.
2. They are there by an existing agreement already written policy in APO.
3. They have been dying out over the last 20 years ago.
4. There is an open-door policy on all new chapters.
5. Other fraternities which are co-ed exist, as do other fraternities which
are
single sex. Not non"live-in" fraternities.
