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Originally posted by Taualumna
You know what I find funny? There are schools that don't recognize GLOs because they exclude one gender, but yet allow a local Link (Girl Guides of Canada) unit to meet on campus. Some schools even allow Guides to set up a booth on their clubs info nights.
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Okay, I don't know exactly what kind of "unit" you're referring to - but Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are connected through WAGGGS (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts) and I would assume their policies to be similar.
As President of the Campus Girl Scouts at my school, and after 15 years of membership in Girl Scouts, I guess I consider myself somewhat of an authority on GS policies.
Once a girl turns eighteen or graduates from high school, she is no longer eligible for Girl Scouts - as a girl member. After eighteen, one wishing to be involved with Girl Scouts is considered an ADULT Girl Scout. That means that you volunteer in various ways. You can lead a troop, organize programs, or just lend a hand when needed. Most Campus Girl Scouts are not troop leaders or advisors because no one has time with a full academic workload. Instead, we put on programs for Girl Scouts, for the campus, and for the community.
Here's where it sounds like you're confused - adult Girl Scouts CAN BE MALE. In fact, my very own fiance is a Girl Scout. And if I didn't go to a women's college, we would certainly recruit males to be in Campus Girl Scouts.
Perhaps Girl Guides in Canada don't have similar policies (because there are differences between Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, but I don't know them very well), but I suspect that men are reluctant to join Girl Guides when it carries such a stigma (at least, that's how guys are here). Maybe you are believing a campus group of Girl Guides to be exclusively female when it in fact only suffers from lack of male interest.
