>You mean, there are schools that don't? I had figured they were the norm at every school.
My Lord. I just pictured what it would be like if someone tried to start an organization like that at my Ivy League school, and I'm still recovering from my imagination. S&S, you're absolutely right (as usual)...it would absolutely be viewed as the school pimping out its young women. It's an understatement to say that the program wouldn't fly; there would be widespread outrage. Furthermore, an all-female program would violate the school's non-discrimination policy; the school does not recognize, much less sponsor, any single-gender groups except for singing groups; this is the reason why even our local fraternities/sororities are not recognizes.
I laugh whenever I hear someone arguing that this country has become totally homogenized and that McDonald's has destroyed all the regional character...as if! My school and the SEC might as well be on different planets.
In the last several months I've been to Scotland and to Birmingham, Alabama, and Alabama felt a lot more like a foreign land to me than Edinburgh did!
(One similarity, though -- some alumni at our big game tailgate in style...we're talking crystal, silver and champagne. For the students, though, it's all about jeans, keg stands, and hiking boots.)