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From the NIC web site:
Statement of Position Regarding Single-Gender Membership
Fraternities and sororities have the right under the United States Constitution and civil rights laws to exist as single-gender organizations and to maintain that status, especially under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Further, Title IX of the Educational Amendment of 1972 provides that sexual discrimination shall not apply to membership practices of a social fraternity or social sorority that is exempt from taxation under section 501 of the IRS Code of 1954, the active membership of which consists primarily of students in attendance at an institution of higher education.
Beyond this, the North-American Interfraternity Conference affirms that men's and women's fraternities offer excellent opportunities for men and women to share a fraternal experience, and it supports the National Panhellenic Conference in its Resolution on Single-Sex Fraternities. The NIC believes single-gender organizations develop the character of an individual by
• Providing students with campus communities that provide an intimate, family-like structure;
• Providing a focus on scholarship, personal development, trust, mutual assistance and friendships;
• Offering full membership to men and women in their respective single-gender organizations;
• Opening membership with no discriminatory clauses related to race, creed or national origin;
• Allowing the chapter and candidate an opportunity for mutual agreement on membership; and
• Allowing the members of these private organizations to identify their friends without restraint.
The Conference believes strongly in single-gender membership and the acceptance of entirely male or female members, and it asserts the rights of every member fraternity to confine membership to men and to exist
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