In September students at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, walked and biked past groves of evergreen trees and the Mr. Suds laundromat to a Bible study meeting in a Victorian house on the edge of campus. This was the first meeting of the newly named Christian Fellowship at Bowdoin College, which for the past 40 years had gone by the name Bowdoin Christian Fellowship.
That slight change in word order signifies a big change in the InterVarsity chapter’s status: It is no longer a recognized student group. Last year, Bowdoin College changed its rules to forbid student groups from discriminating on the basis of religion in their membership and leadership....