[19282] in APO-L
Re: All Male (We might as well drop the No Subject Line)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Tue Oct 6 16:32:47 1998
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:19:56 +0100
Reply-To: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
From: John Grossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <6ccdd390.361a765d@aol.com>
> traditions of APO at Lafayette. As Spock and Kirk debated, the one vs the
> many. As per Spock, there are times for both, but I think the
> needs of the
> many outweigh the one.
Quoting pieces of a larger work is a dangerous thing to do... if your
sufficiently granular and selective you can prove just about anything. In
that same movie, they talk about IDIC, Infinite Diversity, Infinite
Combinations. Diversity makes us stronger, rather than weaker. Cookie cutter
chapters do not allow us to adapt to the conditions on the campuses on which
we operate. I can think of at least two places where if the now all-male
chapters went co-ed it would not matter because the campus population in
which they operate would laugh really hard and there attempts at going co-ed
would fail. Our goal is service, to do the most service we can to make this
planet that much better. Diversity is what makes us strong. That Freedom to
adapt is what makes our chapters operate at M.I.T, and also half a planet
away at the University of Mindanao, two schools that are very different. I
think ideals are great things, there's also the reality of the situation
too... National fiat does no one any good. Leave us the freedom to do the
best we can in the situations we are in. Centralizing it all defeats the
FIRST purpose of APO which is teaching leadership as centralization
inherently means minimizing the number of people making decisions.
-John
