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Chan790

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15. Geez, these kids are dumb.

Reply to dariomax (Original post)

Thu Mar 26, 2015, 05:02 PM

Mar 2015

You do what we did in college...we wanted a fraternity house on campus so we started a men's safe-space religious communal-living organization. (A lay-monastic community...it's a very-Catholic college; they weren't going to say no.)

As part of the approval as a "community-life organization" were given a small dorm (what they call a "house"...18 dorm-rooms with a common-area and common-kitchen). All the fraternity brothers joined the men's monastic community and suddenly we had our own dorm.

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Wesleyan student: My college discriminates against fraternities. We’re suing. [View all] dariomax Mar 2015 OP

Flexural? n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #1

How the hell do they get any studying done in the "Open House"? tularetom Mar 2015 #2

They are suing because a mostly-white fraternity doesn't count as a special-interest minority? DetlefK Mar 2015 #3

There is no right to a fraternity....... Historic NY Mar 2015 #4

Really? A college that allows students to form their own groups is "engaged in segregation" hughee99 Mar 2015 #10

Well they certainly aren't integrating... Historic NY Mar 2015 #14

Should the administration be required to hughee99 Mar 2015 #17

Should the college aid and abet it? DeSwiss Mar 2015 #21

I'm not sure that outlawing fraternaties will fix any of this, and if you're going to outlaw them hughee99 Mar 2015 #22

If they can have a "Women of Color" house NobodyHere Mar 2015 #5

That would be the majority of fraternities, whether they advertise it as such or not. LanternWaste Mar 2015 #6

(LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM) Kelvin Mace Mar 2015 #7

Gesundheit! derby378 Mar 2015 #12

Good "I Spy" Kelvin! Dont call me Shirley Mar 2015 #16

That's what Wesleyan calls it tammywammy Mar 2015 #19

If anyone needs to get discriminated against, it's fraternities. Larry Engels Mar 2015 #8

How about just a random house where you have to live amicably with whom chance assigns you bigworld Mar 2015 #9

I think our acronyms might be getting a bit too long. (nt) jeff47 Mar 2015 #11

I used to think so back in the '80s, but my last girlfriend was 4 or 5 of those BobSmith4152 Mar 2015 #13

Geez, these kids are dumb. Chan790 Mar 2015 #15

As a lawyer, it's intiguing MosheFeingold Mar 2015 #18

State actor or private school? When they accept federal or state funds, does that change the rules? 24601 Mar 2015 #20

All really questions MosheFeingold Mar 2015 #23