A Rose by Any Other Name?: Co-ed Fraternity and Heteronormative Traditions

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

But I don't understand why formals or multi-group mixers would be weird.

Is that in response to me? It can be weird if that's not something done on his campus. However, if you target the groups who don't have every begging at their heels for social events, I bet there'd be some who were willing to try something new.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Is that in response to me? It can be weird if that's not something done on his campus. However, if you target the groups who don't have every begging at their heels for social events, I bet there'd be some who were willing to try something new.

I'm happy to hear from you always, but I was really thinking more about the OP.

I understand being co-ed making interactions with other GLO odd since they aren't going to fall neatly into the typical paired events. But once I started thinking about it, being co-ed shouldn't stop you from having a formal, assuming that you want to have one.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

But once I started thinking about it, being co-ed shouldn't stop you from having a formal, assuming that you want to have one.

Oh, I agree. We lived across the street from Evans Scholars, which was co-ed, and I'm pretty sure they had formal, barn dance, Impromptus (called grab-a-dates elsewhere), and so on.

It was also my experience that hosting (i.e. PAYING) for an event and asking another group or groups to come is a little easier than trying to split something the first time out.