[20389] in APO-L
Re: 2 Fraternities, All-Male, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Tue Mar 30 12:56:18 1999
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:53:51 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <19990330174528.16421.qmail@steroid.ecst.csuchico.edu>
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 hawkeye@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU wrote:
> > > > been that he could have created a FRATERNAL organization that included =
> > > > both men and women? Not likely.
> > > It would have been impossible for him in 1925 to create a co-ed
> > > organization at Lafayette.......
> > Yes, but of the first 10 chapters of Alpha Phi Omega, only 2 or 3 of them
> > were at schools which did not admit women. (Alpha at Lafayette, Theta at U
> > of Virginia (no info available on Iota at Park College)
> But you have to consider the times that this occurred. What did women get to
> do in 1925? Not much, and co-ed was not going to happen for groups such as
> us. It wouldn't have been proper to have women socializing with men. But
> Horton's inclusiveness of religion, etc, would have included women if it had
> been allowed.
The Membership requirements of APO at the founding were the same as BSA's.
Of the three membership requirements that BSA deals with today("God,Girls,
and Gays"), only girls would have been an issue. In the 1920s, being an
admitted Gay was very dangerous and the number of students who considerred
themselves atheist was much smaller (and wouldn't have been allowed in
most of the social greeks either). APO's breadth of religion was unusual
for a Greek Letter Organization prior to WWII, but reflected BSA's
standards, not the college campus.
YiLFS
RAndy Finder
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