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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
- Newsgroups: soc.college
- Subject: Re: Fraternal Reality From a Greek
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162755.4299@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:27:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov20.195428.25027@rtsg.mot.com> <1992Nov21.083215.12554@umr.edu> <1992Nov23.084802.2227@ncsu.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov23.084802.2227@ncsu.edu> jagreath@eos.ncsu.edu (JOSEPH ALAN GREATHOUSE) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov21.083215.12554@umr.edu>, ckincy@mcs213h.cs.umr.edu (Charles Kincy) writes:
- >=>We're not asking that the Greek system be abolished. Granted, it
- >=>would make some of us happier that people didn't need to have their
- >=>egos stroked by minions of the fraternity system, but we would be
- >=>happy to see two little reforms instituted in the Greek system.
- >=>[1] no hazing; [2] no discrimination. Period. That means, no
- >=>denial of membership because X is a _________.
- >
- >=>As a bonus, we're even asking you to do it voluntarily. For your
- >=>own good. Because a fascist administration may get just a little too
- >=>upset at you, and, *whoosh*, no more Greek system. Wouldn't that be
- >=>a shame?
- >
- >I just love having somebody else tell me what to think and how to think it.
- >It isn't facist administrations that I worry about, it is facist individuals
- >such as yourself.
-
- I take it Martin Luther King was a "facist" for wanting to desegregate
- schools.
-
- >As for getting rid of a Greek system, I would hate to imagine
- >the lawsuits which would be filed against a public institution for what would
- >amount to discrimination based on membership in a Greek Letter Organization.
-
- No need to imagine! Look it up yourself!
-
- 10 ALR3d 389 (listing such cases in private and public schools)
- Phelps v Colby College, 595 A2d 403 (upholding suspension at private school)
- Sigma Chi v University of Colorado, 258 F Supp 515 (upholding university's
- punishment of fraternity that discriminated against blacks)
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