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1. bowdoinorient.com › 2022/02/04 › end-of-an-era-theEnd of an era: the final years of Bowdoin’s fraternities

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   Feb 4, 2022 · Raymond Bolduc ’71, a member of Zeta Psi, recognized that Bowdoin’s fraternities were “dinosaurs fading slowly into extinction,” but still expressed his discontent with what he maintains even today was a “power grab” by Edwards.

2. www.bowdoin.edu › news › 2024The Bowdoin Hello: A Couple of Seconds That Add Up Over Time

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   Sep 13, 2024 · Though fraternities are long gone, each new class of students continues the tradition, refashioning the gesture to fit their ideals for Bowdoin's community today. Neiman Mocombe ’26, a multimedia student correspondent for Bowdoin's communications office, set out during the second week of classes to get a sense of what students think about the ...

3. bowdoinorient.com › 2022/10/28 › the-people-behindThe people behind the Bowdoin Hello – The ... - Bowdoin Orient

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   Oct 28, 2022 · The College writes that “Back in the 1960s, Bowdoin fraternity pledges would be in trouble if they didn’t give a vigorous ‘hello’ to each other, even from the other side of campus.” In an effort to revive this tradition, I talked to people that I believe are champions of the Bowdoin Hello, in hopes of putting a face—or faces—to ...

4. bowdoinorient.com › 2024/02/16 › do-bowdoin-parties-suckDo Bowdoin parties suck? – The Bowdoin Orient

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   Feb 16, 2024 · This year, only a few students who experienced Bowdoin before Covid remain, and the impact of the pandemic on campus life is fading into the rearview mirror. That excuse is starting to lose its steam.

5. research.bowdoin.edu › forty-years-the-history-ofOrient: Golden Age for Bowdoin Greeks – Forty Years: The ...

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   Even before the advent of coeducation at Bowdoin, however, there were some flaws in the fraternity system: “most, if not all” Bowdoin fraternities discriminated against black, Catholic, and Jewish students, in part as a result of the national fraternities’ regulations.

6. link.springer.com › article › 10The Sixties Came Late to Bowdoin | Society - Springer

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   Apr 23, 2013 · Bowdoin’s transformation under President Howell in 1969 and 1970 was cataclysmic, not evolutionary. Most of what happened occurred in less than a year and crystallized into a new social and cultural pattern that has remained, apart from minor details, unchanged in the ensuing 43 years.

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   Are Bowdoin's fraternities fading into extinction?

   • Raymond Bolduc ’71, a member of Zeta Psi, recognized that Bowdoin’s fraternities were “dinosaurs fading slowly into extinction,” but still expressed his discontent with what he maintains even today was a “power grab” by Edwards.

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   Did Bowdoin's fraternities prove their worth to the College?

   • In his view, Bowdoin’s fraternities no longer proved their worth to the College. In the time that had passed between Edwards’ meeting in Paris and this announcement, the College’s President had settled into his new role and embarked upon a mission to change the institution for the better.

   End of an era: the final years of Bowdoin’s fraternities

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   When did Bowdoin transition from Greek life to college house?

   • Despite this popular narrative, Bowdoin’s transition from Greek life to the College House system arguably began as early as 1971 and reflected not just the urgency of the moment after Brett’s death, but a decision to markedly change the experience of Bowdoin students.

   End of an era: the final years of Bowdoin’s fraternities

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   What happened to the fraternities?

   • With only 30 percent or fewer students pledging fraternities in 1996, the chapters began to experience financial difficulties, leading to the degradation of the houses, and some alumni charge that the College intentionally stood idle while fraternities endured a slow, natural death.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 1992/12/16 › educationCampus Journal; At Bowdoin, an All-Male Era's Vestige Won't ...

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   Dec 16, 1992 · Three fraternities and a sorority, the last holdouts in an otherwise coeducational Greek system, have been ordered to admit the opposite sex or cease to exist by next July 1.