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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
Sep 27, 2019 · While Bowdoin’s first fraternity was founded in 1841, the College did not become coeducational until 1971, 130 years later. Women had to force their way into the institution’s social scene. Many did so by joining Bowdon’s historically all-male fraternities. That’s right. Women joined fraternities.
The fraternities were an integral (albeit occasionally problematic) part of Bowdoin’s social scene, but the Board of Trustees’ 1997 decision to phase them out was, in part, because of their incompatibility with coeducation.
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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.