Gender-Neutral Social Clubs At Harvard See Increased Membership

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Recruitment is up at the sororities turned gender neutral social clubs at Harvard University.

In the wake of investigation into campus sexual assault in 2016, Harvard University imposed restrictions on members of single-gender social clubs in 2017. While some Greek organizations sued the school, four formerly women-only sororities took a different tack, which seems to be working for those clubs.

The number of students who expressed interest in the gender-neutral clubs in the past year marks about a fourfold increase from the low turnout for sorority recruitment last year, according to the Harvard Crimson.

While the university didn't exactly ban single-gender groups such as sororities or fraternities, it did place penalties on them. If you were a member, you couldn't hold a leadership position in a student academic group, be a captain on a varsity team, and you couldn't get college endorsements for fellowships.

Read the Crimson's full story here: Recruitment High At Harvard

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