revoke their charter
Posted on 10/29/2020 3:51:07 PM PDT by simpson96
A fraternity at the University of Michigan is facing a lawsuit from its own national organization for allowing women and non-binary individuals to join. In 2016, Michigan Sigma Phi was struggling to recruit new members and began accepting women. That year, they also had a new member transition from male to female, and another pledge began to identify as non-binary.
"It did feel sort of like we were pioneering something," Stephanie Stoneback, who was one of the first women to pledge the organization, told The Detroit News. "But honestly, it really just felt like I was joining a group of friends."
Since 2016, dozens of women and non-binary individuals have joined the Greek organization, despite rules set by the New York-based national organization, Sigma Phi Society, that state only men are allowed to join.
The national organization is now trying to sever ties with Michigan Sigma Phi and wants them to stop using the Greek letters. Sigma Phi Society argued in a legal filing that the actions of the local chapter are causing "irreparable harm" to their trademarks.
"In a nutshell, defendants want to continue to operate as a Sigma Phi chapter, identify as a Sigma Phi chapter, and use the trademarks — without following the rules. Respectfully, defendants cannot have it both ways," the lawsuit states.
David Nacht, a lawyer representing Michigan Sigma Phi, praised the fraternity for standing up for "inclusion and gender equality."
"These are progressive University of Michigan fraternity members," said Nacht. "That is not a phrase you hear often. These are people who are standing up for civil rights, inclusion, and gender equality. And we just want to give them a right to do so and have a voice."
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“Well, he was a man when he joined, how the heck are we supposed to know what he was going to do.....”
Maybe those ‘in transition’ need to establish their own
Fraternity or Sorority.
LOL
My experience with fraternities was they were a bunch of drunk obnoxious bullies.
CC
It seems nowadays, they’re woke pajama boys.
He, she or it is “The Sweet Heart of Sigma Phi” :>)
“Non-binary?” Like are they octal, or what?
Now they have even more reason to stay drunk
My local fraternity at a small college accepted women in 1973, when “The Sexy Six” wen through the men’s pledge program. They set up a correlative “Lil’Sis” organization that was a co-equal in all respects for just under 20 years until an outbreak of stupidity caused a split and the women’s half went under.
Pledging had both separate and joint activities
Were essentially a fully functional fraternity and sorority that shared our traditions and heritage, held separate and joint meetings, cooperated on hosting parties, charitable events, etc. When I was active we had the best of a single sex and coeducational iorganization.
There was of course none of this “non-binary” crap.
What does ‘fraternity’, mean?
Maybe even hexadecimal.
Maybe. But their bribe collections aside, can D political hacks count that high??
revoke their charter
Parties are much more fun with GIRLS
binority?
Tripod women?
you know, when women want to be alone to converse with other females, they should be able to....same with men...if they feel they need a club for themselves, do it...
Wait for the demands that it be called TRI-nority.
That ‘boiling controversy’ should keep them busy for a few years alone. “What is our name?” Never mind working on school assignments. That’s for squares.
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