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Old 11-01-2001, 08:31 PM
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Hm. I have to say, it bothers me to hear about any GLO, and AEPhi in particular, cutting people based strictly on religion. Yes, GLOs are selective organizations by nature, and it's possible, even likely, that a religious member of religion X may be uncomfortable in a sorority whose ideals are based on religion Y - and, yes, a sorority ritual with a lot of references to Jesus would bother me as a Jew. But it still seems wrong to me to cut someone just because of religion. We never did, and my chapter is stronger for it. "A great girl is a great girl".

There is a historically Jewish fraternity on my campus (I will not name the house) that made a practice of being absolutely sure only Jewish men joined. To avoid any appearance of religious discrimination, every year they would bid a couple of non-Jewish men - but once these bids were extended, the fraternity would stop inviting them to dinners, trips, etc. and basically stop showing interest in them. These men would naturally decide to join another house that actually showed interest in them. And if anyone in the administration questioned them as to why the house was all Jewish, the brothers could innocently say, "Well, we offered bids to Joe and Bob, they're Christian, but they didn't accept them..." That always disgusted me.