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Feb 4, 2022 · As the social atmosphere of the United States began to change and the constitution of the Bowdoin student body grew increasingly diverse, many of the critical pillars of Bowdoin’s fraternities that made them so functional crumbled.
Apr 8, 2021 · Bowdoin had 473 graduates in 2020. Even if every single class since Bowdoin’s 1794 founding was that big (no chance) and all alumni were still alive (also no chance), that would only be ¼ of Harvard’s current alumni.
Feb 4, 2022 · End of an era: the final years of Bowdoin’s fraternities. By Reuben Schafir • February 4, 2022 “This story, in a funny way, begins in Paris,” remembered Robert H. Edwards, President of the College from 1990 to 2001. Now 86 years of age, Edwards sat upright at his spotless dining room table in his farmhouse near Wiscasset, Maine ...
All Bowdoin students are prohibited from joining fraternities, sororities, and other private and similarly selective-membership social organizations.
Bowdoin abolished fraternities in 1997 and replaced them with a system of college-owned social houses. Freshmen are required to live on campus and are assigned to a college house that provides...
Bowdoin College Student Life. Bowdoin College has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,850 (fall 2023), with a gender distribution of 48.0% male students and 52.0% female students. At this...
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In July 2017, a Harvard committee pointed to Bowdoin College as a model for eradicating final clubs, sororities, and fraternities from campus social life. This preliminary recommendation would have taken effect with the incoming class of 2021, so all currently enrolled students would be exempt.
