Posted on 09/22/2014 5:57:49 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Connecticut’s Wesleyan University told campus fraternities Monday that they must support co-educational membership by 2017 or lose their official recognition at the school.
“With equity and inclusion in mind, we have decided that residential fraternities must become fully co-educational over the next three years,” administrators told students in a campus-wide email. “If the organizations are to continue to be recognized as offering housing and social spaces for Wesleyan students, women as well as men must be full members and well-represented in the body and leadership of the organization.”
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Do Sororities not exist there?
Yup, and I’ve already applied.
It’s a setup. Waiting for the first “victim.”
First thing I thought of.
I’m certain that sororities will be termed “areas of refuge” and will remain guy-free. Its only fair if it works against reason.
The ‘drag queen’ ones probably do.
do sororities have to accept male students? the words sorority and fraternity will no longer apply...
The Constitutional right to associate, includes the right NOT to associate.
Will they be known as ‘The Tri-Betas’?
Melody Oliphant, a recent Wesleyan graduate, helped found the school’s only sorority, which as a nonresident group is not subject to the new rules. But she said the rules failed to recognize fraternities’ “potential to be progressive institutions and progressive spaces.”
I hurt my back when that ladder fell. It was worth it...
Do Sororities not exist there?
If so, I might decide to go back for more college.
Would it surprise you if businesses and structures have two future rest rooms in public places: unisex and womens?
That cuts both ways - the fraternities have the freedom to choose who they will associate with, but the university (a private university) has the right to choose which organizations they will and will not recognize.
Not saying this is the right move (it’s not), but it’s the university’s choice.
The funny part was why it fell.
They ought to drop Wesleyan from their name.
John Wesley was a wonderful man of God.
agreed.
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