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Originally posted by Diva06Sweet
aww one of my old chapters i was D1 Director
uh i hate to tell you this but GSS will not be single sexed again
although most men dont want to be in a sorority.
Not all APO chapters have to take women some are grandfathered and will never have women *this is according to them*
If i am not mistaken Omega Phi Alpha was started by APO so they didnt have to take women but i could be wrong.
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Little more complicated than that. All GLOs that are not social have to allow both genders. But that is *not* because Title IX places limitation on the organizations. it is because the law places limitations on the *school*. Any school which accepts Federal Monies,(and that includes accepting students who get Pell Grants, because those are ultimately federally backed)[1], may not allow non social GLOs that are not accessible to both genders.
Because of that, if a woman wants to sue under Title IX to get entry to the Alpha Phi Omega chapter at Drexel, they would have as the primary entity they would sue would be Drexel University, not Zeta Theta Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega or Alpha Phi Omega, Inc.
When Title IX came into effect, a large number of schools decided that they would be proactive in enforcing what Title IX said. So Alpha Phi Omega found it necessary to go co-ed to keep from losing a *large* number of chapters at the time. And they allowed the chapters that did want to remain all-male (and whose schools didn't force the co-ed) to remain so to keep them from seceding (though the question as to whether they would have been any more successful individually or as a group in fighting Title IX is, IMO, in doubt.)
And APO did work for some time trying to get out from under Title IX. There was a committee of the National Board to try to research how to get an exemption from Title IX until at least 1981.
The same laws that caused Alpha Phi Omega's changes equally apply to GSS and OPA, the chapters can remain single-gender until the school says otherwise, and the school saying otherwise may be their own decision or it may be caused by a lawsuit...
Randy