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Originally posted by slickwilly95991
The University could not force the group to take certain members. Unless this is a private school. Needless to say, the easiest analogy to use is this:
Would any fraternity accept women? Would they be forced to accept women because of the non-discriminatory policy? All public schools I know have such a policy and I have yet to hear of any woman joining a fraternity. Also, I have yet to see a fraternity forced to accept any person they didn't want into the organization.
All organizations have certain criteria for membership. For fraternities, you must be male. In some others you must be Christian or at least have a belief in a Creator. All organizations have beliefs. If a potential member does not comply with those beliefs, they are not invited into the organization.
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Not so.
In 1972, they passed Title IX of Education Act which barred schools that received federal funding from discriminating on the basis of gender. While most people may be familiar with this act and its affect on college sports (forced schools to give women 'equivalent' sports opportunities), it ALSO affected college clubs & organizations.
Social fraternities and sororities were excluded from this act. But all other groups were not. Several all-male groups were sued under this act, and others were concerned they would be. I know that the Iron Arrow Honor Society at Univ Miami was sued under this act, and when they did not change their membership policy to admit women, they were kicked off campus. (
http://www.ironarrow.com/). (when they did change this policy, they were again allowed back as an officially recognized group.). My fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, was concerned this would also happen to its chapters. Thankfully, the voting delegates at our 1976 National Convention voted to go co-ed (but we still allowed chapters to remail all-male if they wished)
So, bottom line, a school most certainly could expect its clubs/org to be open to ALL students. What legal basis they may have I won't know.