[6037] in APO-L
Service as a focus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry D. French, Sr.)
Wed Apr 21 18:48:14 1993
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 18:47:24 -0400
Reply-To: FRE9011@MENTOR.CUP.EDU
From: "Larry D. French, Sr." <FRE9011@MENTOR.CUP.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@PURCCVM.BITNET>
Greetings brothers,
I think that the opinions of the last two posts on this subject are
equally missing the point. Each one says that they should not allow someone
to pledge if service alone or friendship alone is their only reason for
pledging.
I think a person should pledge because they believe in all the CPs
collectively. We have brothers and pledges that don't want to follow the
traditions of A Phi O, don't want to do service projects unless it benefits
them, and want to sit around the meeting criticising the way things are done
when someone states the way they should be done. The president has to pull
teeth to get most of the brothers and pledges off their tail to do anything.
The pledges get away with every trick in the book because the pledge trainer
doesn't keep close enough eye on them.
When asked why they pledged, the typical response was "so & so asked me
to" or "It looks good on a Resume." My reason for pledging was to stay active
in the traditions of Scouting. When these new brothers and pledges hear what
traditions and pledge tasks that I had to do back in the Spring of 1981, they
immediately say that it was hazing or excessive. I think it was necessary to
develop a pledge into a desirable brother.
We should believe in what we're doing and do it to the best of our
ability. This is just my two cents, but I feel that it needed to be said.
In LFS,
Larry D. French, Sr.
Lambda Omega Historian (California Univ. of PA)
Omega Mu Life Member Alumni (Clarion Univ. of PA) (Spring 81)
