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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000
An excellent point. Not only that, several GLOs were founded in a protesting reaction to prejudices / incidents of racism. (For example, AOII got started up in response to a Jewish girl getting denied a bid to another GLO, on the basis of religion.)
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No, AOII was not founded because of discrimination. She was founded because all of our founders wanted to be in the same organization as they were friends. It wasn't like, "Oh I'm Jewish and I got denied, let's start our own!"
From our website: "Barnard College, in the late 1890’s, was the first separate college for women to be affiliated with a great men’s university such as Columbia University. AOII’s four Founders were in the class of 1898, young, and unlike most of the women who had entered Barnard in previous years. They were friendly, adventurous, frank and merry, and enthusiastically devoted to each other and to the class of ‘98. Determined to make a democratic, unostentatious society, the four women, Stella George Stern, Helen St. Clair, Elizabeth Heywood, and Jessie Wallace climbed a little winding stair into the stackroom of the old Columbia Library. This little room was rarely used and stored Anglo-Saxon tomes and ancient vellum manuscripts. While the four sat in a deep window seat, pigeons outside and snow lightly falling, they pledged one another at the beginning of the year 1897."
ETA (this post from an old thread on GC in which irishpipes posted): AOII has a connection to Kappa Kappa Gamma. Barnard College (of Columbia University) was founded in 1889. Kappa chartered a chapter there in 1891. The classes were very small, and because the entrance requirements included knowledge of Latin and Greek, in addition to may other rigorous subjects, most students were slightly older than the traditional college students because they had to study after prep school in order to pass the entrance examinations. Since the classes were small, Kappa traditionally admitted to membership the entirety of each class. The class preceding the class of our founders was significantly larger and Kappa could not take everyone. As a result, the College needed a new fraternity. This need, along with other conditions, led to the founding of AOII. Our founders pledged themselves in December 1896 and officially became Alpha chapter of AOII on January 2, 1897.
So no, we were not founded because one of our founders was denied entrance to Kappa.
Back to your regularly scheduled thread...
I guess the strike has stopped affecting me since I've not had TV since we moved to our new house.
It's amazing the amount of stuff you find to do instead of watching TV.