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Originally Posted by psy
Weren't high school sororities and fraternities banned in many places because they often functionally became gangs, IIRC?
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I've never heard that it was because they operated like gangs.
Fraternities were definitely banned in DC schools in the middle 90s when I was there. The rationale I was told was because we couldn't have selective organizations.
However, all the NPHC orgs in DC had some sort of youth affiliates after school hours, so if we really wanted that experience, we could be in a beautillion or cotillion from the Alphas, AKAs, or the Links; Jabberwock or Delta Academy from the Deltas; Sigma Beta Club with the Sigmas; Archonettes with the Zetas;, Rhoers with Sigma Gamma Rho; or Kappa League. The National Sorority of Phi Delta Kappa for teachers also had Xinos for girls and Kudos for boys. The Ques now have the Rhino Club, which didn't exist when I was in school.
All that to say that we didn't miss high school Greek life.
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