In what has become a challenge for Greek leadership, Northwestern University student Adam Davies, who identifies as transgender female-to-male, went through three days of the sorority recruitment process before school administrators called him into a meeting to say he was not “fit and eligible” because of his gender. Although the school’s campus Panhellenic board members expressed interest in welcoming gender non-binary members into their houses, the national boards have been less comfortable.
This month, student unions at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke will start providing free tampons in all of its bathrooms. Sue Wasiolek, the associate Vice President for student affairs and dean of students at Duke, noted that the school has been providing free condoms for years. “[This project] believes that women’s menstrual cycles are an as important physical manifestation issue as safe sex,” she said, “and that it should be as easy to find a free tampon or pad on a college campus as it is to find a condom.”