A group of sororities and fraternities allege in a new suit that Harvard University’s policy denying on-campus leadership positions to members of single-sex organizations violates federal law.
A Harvard student who joins a same-sex social organization “may not hold a leadership position in any on-campus student organization, captain any athletic team, or compete for any post-graduate fellowship that requires an institutional endorsement, like the prestigious Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholarships,” according to the complaint filed Dec. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
The policy allegedly runs afoul of Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination law that ...