Wesleyan University orders fraternities to become coed

gopusa ^ | 23 Sep 2014 | AP

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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Wesleyan University in Connecticut on Monday ordered its fraternities with houses on campus to become coeducational within the next three years...

[Red_Devil 232]

Sordidities?

[faithhopecharity]

another university turns itself into a sick joke

[Sicon]

Freedom of Association? Freedom?! Ha!

[Right Brother]

So considering the prevailing feminist statistic claiming 1 out of every 5 female students are raped, I guess this makes perfect sense.

[shove_it]

‘Animal House’ is my favorite movie, mainly because my fraternity nickname is “Otter” but that was waaay before the movie came out.

[MeshugeMikey]

PC at any Cost!

[seowulf]

If they’re coed, they can’t be called fraternities, so what will they be called?

Orgies

[TexasGator]

Read the article

[Mister Da]

Uniternities.

[NorthMountain]

Co-ed "frat" houses. Yeah, this idea will end well.

Is bangin' yer fraternity sister a form of incest?

[jmaroneps37]

Liberals want to control EVERY SINGLE ASPECT of peoples’ lives. They don’t care about the right of free association. They just KNOW what is good for us.

[Mister Da]

I don’t understand what this decision has to do with drinking.

Does the Admin. think coed Frats will diminish the drinking? The women are drinking heavily, too, as we all know from the reported “epidemic” of rapes of drunken coeds. It is just as likely that the women will drink more as it is likely the men will drink less.

Hint for college admins.: Young men often drink to get the courage to approach the women. That is not likely to change until all women are naked, wearing a sign saying “Free Sex for Shy Men”. So, with women around the frat house all the time, the men may drink more.

[Scoutmaster]

They already do at some chapters. I’ve seen video of Kappa Alpha Psi chapters doing the Kappa cane dance, with one or possibly two white members involved.

[Scoutmaster]

"Fraternity' means a group of people with a common interest. It does not mean a group of men.

At least one of the major national 'sororities' is chartered nationally as a fraternity, although it's identified in college Greek systems as a sorority. A co-ed fraternity could remain a fraternity.

The issue here is that the national fraternities that charter fraternal chapters at Wesleyan may not permit female members. Wesleyan is trying to change the terms of agreements that the Wesleyan fraternity chapters have with their national fraternal organizations.

[Scoutmaster]

Gamma Phi Beta, founded in 1874, was the first female group to call itself a sorority. Many of the other major national female fraternal groups were formed before 1874 and some have never changed their legal name to XXX 'sorority'.

There have been co-ed traditional fraternities since the early 1800s, although most co-ed traditional fraternities are recent creations.

Psi Upsilon, a co-ed traditional fraternity, has been around since 1833. Zeta Delta Xi, another co-ed traditional fraternity, was founded in 1852.

The number of single-sex traditional fraternities and sororities is so large as to make the few co-ed ones virtually meaningless.

[Fiji Hill]

"Fraternity' means a group of people with a common interest. It does not mean a group of men.

I thought it came from the Latin word fraternitas (brotherhood)--from frater (brother).

[Scoutmaster]

Per the OED:

Middle English: from Old French fraternite, from Latin fraternitas, from fraternus.