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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.
Sep 9, 2024 · This building, explains Kisner, is the dwelling house of the last active Shaker village in the world, at Sabbathday Lake in Maine, less than thirty miles from the Bowdoin campus. Between them, Brother Arnold and Sister June “constitute one of the longest-running utopian experiments in America.”
- Boston College. Location: Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Enrollment: 9,377. U.S. News Ranking: #37. Acceptance rate: 28% Founded by the Jesuits in 1863, Boston College (BC) still maintains its religious affiliation with the Catholic Church today—over 150 years later.
- Fordham University. Location: New York, New York. Enrollment: 9,645. U.S. News Ranking: #74. Acceptance rate: 46% With campuses scattered around New York City, Fordham students live and learn in one of the world’s great cities—and the epicenter of everything from international business to entertainment.
- Rice University. Location: Houston, Texas. Enrollment: 3,992. U.S. News Ranking: #17. Acceptance rate: 11% Located in the heart of the nation’s fourth-largest city, Rice University offers an active environment for students both on and off campus.
- University of Notre Dame. Location: Notre Dame, Indiana. Enrollment: 8,617. U.S. News Ranking: #15. Acceptance Rate: 18% As a college without Greek life, Notre Dame’s 30 single-sex residence halls are at the center of the school’s social life.
Bowdoin banned Greek life in 1997, one of several schools to follow Williams College’s lead in disbanding the organizations in 1962. The main factor in Williams’ decision to end fraternities—it was an all-male college at the time—was discrimination.
Sep 27, 2019 · Women joined fraternities. Sixty-five women joined 254 male first-years (and roughly 900 male students total) at Bowdoin’s matriculation ceremony in 1971, becoming members of the College’s first coeducational class. Among them was a young woman named Patricia “Barney” Geller ’75.
Oct 28, 2022 · Many students apply to Bowdoin with hopes of belonging in a small, tight-knit community. If there’s one pro of traditions, it’s nurturing that community; one Bowdoin tradition that has waxed and waned is the Bowdoin Hello.
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A local fraternity, Alpha Rho Upsilon (whose letters were chosen to stand for “All Races United”), was founded in 1936 in response to this exclusion. While over 95% of the Bowdoin student body was composed of fraternity brothers in the late sixties, by 1971, only 50% of freshmen joined a fraternity.
