Trinity College(CT) - All Greek Orgs Told to Go Co-ed

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Originally Posted by naraht

I've met a woman (friend of my mother's) whose parents found 2 & 3 equally unacceptable.

Oh yeah, there was a girl on my floor who she and her parents met the Black roommate on day 1 and promptly moved her stuff out. But if it was a choice between living there and living with a guy I'm pretty sure I know which they would have picked. (We are talking old school dorm rooms here, not suites with individual bedrooms)

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Unfortunately, that is a really heteronormative view of the situation.

It is, but the point is that sex organs =/= skin color or religion. Fraternities and sororities have been admitting people of various colors and religions for quite a while now and they're still identifiable as fraternities and sororities. I believe that if all fraternities and sororities were forced to admit people of the opposite sex, the Greek system would morph into something completely different.

Here's the other thing in this scenario - have there been actual men trying to join the sororities and upset that they can't, or vice versa? The whole "we want to give all students the opportunity to join" rings quite holllow when there's no evidence that any of the students want the "opportunity" that they are trying to create. When Dartmouth went coed, some of the fraternities also went coed on their own, without the school forcing them to do so.