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Originally Posted by Senusret I
Alpha Phi Alpha has a chapter there..... they must exist outside of this self-selection....thing.
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Yes, I noticed when I did a search on the Davidson site that Alpha Phi Alpha had colonized there in the early 00s.
I did find this PDF regarding the topic, but it doesn't tell me anything more than I already knew:
http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/documen...ife%200708.pdf
The Patterson Court (where the eating houses/fraternities are located) website is pretty cruddy and not as good as I remember it once being:
http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x16074.xml
I have no idea if they left Alpha Phi Alpha not do self-selection. Honestly it seems unfair that they would let them and not any other groups do it... but who knows?
ETA: I found a very good timeline here:
http://www2.davidson.edu/studentlife...PC_history.pdf
I suppose I should add that I grew up 40 minutes from Davidson and went there throughout my life. I wanted to go to college there but ended up not at the last minute. My aunt is an alumna and is pretty much horrified that there are any single-sex groups there. In 1971 the process of self-selection really was designed to kill Greek life and make all the groups into co-ed eating houses. For whatever reason, according to that timeline the original co-ed eating houses all seem to have died by the early 90s.
According to the timeline, national sororities were debated in 1997 and 2001....
Found this too:
http://library.davidson.edu/archives...court_type.asp
OK, one more thing. Evidently fraternities do give bids somehow, although how that would work in the self-selection process isn't clear to me. Also, you can switch eating houses. And one more thing that I do remember hearing from my college tour: you can join an eating house in "clusters" of three so you won't get separated from your friends. Read about all of that in this article:
http://media.www.thedavidsonian.com/...-2673071.shtml
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