![]() The group had been initiating women as “honorary sisters” for decades it had also long allowed them to fill empty rooms in its chapter house as rent-paying boarders-as Scott did when she matriculated on the Hill in fall 2019. “This will help us maintain our membership-and I feel like we’re on the right side of history.” “I don’t see any downsides,” says Mat Tabacco ’09, MEng ’10, Seal and Serpent’s alumni president. It remains independent more than a century later, having endured countless cultural shifts as well as world wars that disrupted collegiate life for two generations of young men.Īnd in fall 2020, Seal and Serpent embraced an existential change: its alumni and active brothers voted overwhelmingly to go gender neutral, allowing women to become full members for the first time. After weighing her options, she did something that would have been unthinkable in an earlier era: she moved into her older brother’s fraternity house.īut it wasn’t just any Greek house-it was the Seal and Serpent Society, which has been forging its own path since it was founded on the Hill in 1905 as a rare fraternity without an affiliation to a national organization. ![]() When Andrea Scott ’22 transferred to Cornell from Penn State as a sophomore, she didn’t relish the prospect of another year of dormitory living. ![]() Iconoclastic North Campus fraternity is now coed This Holiday Season, Try Shopping for Experiences (not Stuff)
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