Andrews is affiliated with the Seventh-Day Adventist church. Like any church, it's their right to believe that Greek membership is incompatible with membership in the school's religious community. Check out the rules in the student handbook:
http://www.andrews.edu/SS/Handbook20...Discipline.htm
Apparently, this school means business when it comes to establishing the boundaries of appropriate student activity as they define it. If these regulations were made known to the students prior to matriculation (since they're on the Web, it'd be hard to argue that they are hidden from students), then a lawyer can't do a thing to help the original poster...I just hope the school administration has some Christian charity toward him and his fellow Greeks.
33girl linked to a bill encouraging schools to respect students' freedom of association. In a head-to-head conflict between a Congressional recommendation and the Constitution, the Constitution wins. The school, which for constitutional purposes is a church, has an iron-clad freedom of religion argument here. That First Amendment argument is going to trump any right to associate. If a church kicks you out, for any reason, that's that. You can't appeal to anybody but God.
This doesn't sound like a school I'd like to attend, but they certainly aren't hiding the rules from prospective students. Excuse_3, was there some kind of silent understanding prior to this year that the no-Greeks rule would not be enforced?
Ivy, J.D.
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