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Arizona Tribune
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
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Lake Forest College's five sororities, expelled last summer by national organizations after the college banned discrimination in pledge selection, have reorganized as local groups. The student body will review their new constitutions.
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CHICAGO - Lake Forest College's five sororities, expelled by their national organizations last summer, have reorganized as local groups.
The student governing body will pass on their new constitutions soon.
The national headquarters of each of the sororities acted after the board of the small liberal arts college in suburban Lake Forest barring discrimination by campus fraternities or sororities in the selection of pledges.
The resolution insisted on selection by the local chapters uninfluenced by the policies of their national organizations.
The trustees said student organizations must be non-discriminatory to be in harmony with the college's admissions policy, which is to accept students without regard to race, religion or nationality.
The resolution was prompted by the action of the national Phi Delta Theta fraternity earlier this year in ordering the Lake Forest chapter to drop a Jewish student it had pledged. The local has been suspended by the national.
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Lake Forest
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sororities reorganized as local groups; student governing body to review new constitutions; phi delta theta local chapter suspended by national.
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Lake Forest College's five sororities were expelled by national organizations last summer after the college board barred discrimination in pledge selection. The resolution required local chapters to select pledges without influence from national policies to align with the college's non-discriminatory admissions. Prompted by Phi Delta Theta ordering its local chapter to drop a Jewish pledge earlier this year.