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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 · When Edwards arrived at Bowdoin in the fall of 1990, Bowdoin’s fraternities were no longer appropriate places for socialization—but neither were the majority of Bowdoin’s other social spaces, which still mostly catered to men.

2. bowdoinorient.com › 2022/10/28 › the-people-behindThe people behind the Bowdoin Hello - 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 ...

3. bowdoinorient.com › bonus › articleA decade after frats, College Houses evolve — The Bowdoin Orient

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   Fraternities at Bowdoin were phased out and a new system of inclusive "College Houses" was implemented. After more than a century and a half of fraternities at Bowdoin, their abolition was a historic shift for the College.

4. www.bostonglobe.com › metro › 2017/07/30Harvard looks to Bowdoin as model in eradicating frats, but ...

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   Jul 30, 2017 · A Harvard committee has pointed to Bowdoin as a model for eradicating final clubs, fraternities, and sororities from campus social life. Harvard administrators share some of Edwards’s concerns.

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. www.bowdoin.edu › news › 2022Because of Women | Bowdoin College - News

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   Mar 16, 2022 · Three fraternities on campus were still limiting women to a “social” status only, but the faculty passed a resolution in February 1979 that they had to “be free of any discrimination based on sex,” with a two-year grace period to carry out that resolution.

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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.

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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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   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.

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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 · But now, nearly 200 years after its founding, Bowdoin has banned all single-sex organizations. Three fraternities and a sorority, the last holdouts in an otherwise coeducational Greek system, have...