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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.
About 40 percent of Bowdoin's students are fraternity members, and most houses have memberships divided evenly among men and women.
Social Life and Fraternities. Coeducation complicated Bowdoin’s social scene, which had been dominated by all-male fraternities. Learn more about the particular social challenges and triumphs that women encountered at the College.
Dec 16, 1992 · One tradition from the all-male days that did not end with the advent of coeducation in 1971 was Bowdoin's strong fraternity system. It continued to thrive. But now, nearly 200 years after...
Oct 23, 1972 · Today, Alpha Kappa Sigma is Bowdoin's only fraternity adamantly opposed to distaff membership.
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.
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Bowdoin College (/ ˈboʊdɪn / ⓘ) is a private liberal arts college in Brunswick, Maine. When Bowdoin was chartered in 1794, Maine was still a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
