Members of the chapter received letters from the national fraternity Thursday notifying them that they had been “unanimously expelled” from the organization. In order to open its doors to non-male members, the chapter had to disaffiliate from its national organization. Roughly 37 percent of the Class of 2020 and 41 percent of the Class of 2019 expressed interest in doing so in previous years of the survey. The new group prepares to recruit members as freshman interest in social groups may be on the decline: A survey distributed to the Class of 2021 by The Crimson found that only 27.6 percent of freshmen respondents said they were “somewhat” or “very interested” in joining fraternities, sororities or final clubs. The KS will host an open recruitment process this year, the group wrote. The policy as it stands mandates that students who join single-gender final clubs, fraternities, and sororities are ineligible for several post-graduate scholarships and fellowships, and from holding leadership positions in student groups and varsity sports teams. “Irrespective of the proposed sanctions and unilateral decision-making of the university, we do not believe that gender should preclude students from joining an organization that simply values character, camaraderie, and diverse social experiences,” the group wrote. Members wrote in a statement announcing that the move was not directly related to Harvard’s policy. Kappa Sigma is the latest single-gender group to change its membership policies in the wake of Harvard's policy penalizing membership in single-gender final clubs and Greek organizations, which takes effect with the Class of 2021. Harvard’s chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity has disaffiliated from its national organization and formed a new, co-ed social group called the KS, the group announced Friday.
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