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Feb 4, 2022 · The houses had become rundown, dirty, and even dangerous. 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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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