{"id":499,"date":"2011-07-10T23:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T23:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/?p=499"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T14:44:58","slug":"orient-fraternity-rush-nets-ample-pledge-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/forty-years-the-history-of-women-at-bowdoin\/social-life-and-fraternities\/orient-fraternity-rush-nets-ample-pledge-yield\/","title":{"rendered":"Orient: Fraternity Rush Nets Ample &#8220;Pledge&#8221; Yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 22, 1972 the college\u2019s student newspaper, <em>The Bowdoin Orient<\/em>, printed an article regarding the 1972 fall fraternity rush (Document SS, 45).\u00a0 The article details the number of new students who pledged the different houses as well as issues with that year\u2019s fall rush.\u00a0 The article states that 54% (196) of the freshman class were involved in rush with 36% (29) of the freshman women and 60% (167) the freshman men participating.\u00a0 Of the nine fraternities, only two did not admit women in any capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The article says that \u201cBowdoin [was] in a somewhat touchy transitional stage,\u201d and attributes it to several things, including the advent of coeducation.\u00a0 Problems with rush stemmed in no small part from the presence of women on campus and increasing class size.\u00a0 Along with twenty cases of dirty rushing, the primary problem was dining.\u00a0\u00a0 Bowdoin dining was dependent on the fraternities, and the fraternities\u2019 dining facilities, because the dining halls could not accommodate the entire student body.\u00a0 Since the student body grew through the inclusion of women, and not many women rushed, the dining halls were stressed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1338\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1338\" title=\"SS45.1 - Orient: Fraternity Rush Nets Ample &quot;Pledge&quot; 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