You have to wonder if this kind of pressure will spread to larger schools and greek systems.
"They talk about breaking barriers down," said Michael Barbera, a sophomore who is president of Delta Kappa Epsilon, one of four fraternities that offer housing at Wesleyan. "But what the university is saying is, 'We'll just be prejudiced against white middle-class men who play sports.' "The New York Times > New York Region > Wesleyan Fraternities Face Pressure to House Women
[...]
The fraternity controversy has bubbled up recently because new dormitories, with a total of 200 beds, are expected to open in September to address a longstanding housing shortage.
The university requires all undergraduates to live either in a dormitory or in "program housing," a residence that meets basic standards of safety, cleanliness and conduct, and features a program contributing to the "social, cultural and academic needs" of the university or the Middletown community. Living in an apartment or a fraternity house that is not part of program housing requires explicit permission from the university.
When housing stock was scarce, such permission was easy to obtain. But with the 200 new beds on campus, the university will not be as quick to grant permission for students to live in nonprogram housing, said Justin Harmon, the director of university communications.
[...]
On Dec. 2, [Douglass J. Bennet, the university president] wrote to alumni of three of the four fraternities that offer housing - Delta Kappa Epsilon, Psi Upsilon and Beta Theta Pi - in an effort to counter claims that the administration wants to shut down the fraternities. (The fourth, Alpha Delta Phi, has had female residents for many years.)
"For all-male fraternities this means including women as equal partners in their residential programs," the letter said. Mr. Bennet also suggested that the fraternities could admit women to their programs and residences without having to grant them membership in the fraternity.
