[19490] in APO-L
Re: Convention Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sarah A. Johnson)
Mon Oct 26 01:16:52 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 01:06:17 -0500
Reply-To: "Sarah A. Johnson" <sjohnson@butler.edu>
From: "Sarah A. Johnson" <sjohnson@BUTLER.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> My thoughts went the opposite way... Region III staff went and
> submitted that much stuff, why did none of the other regions submit
> legislation? If you actually go through that packet you'll discover
> than under 20 people submitted legislation (excluding board submitted
> stuff), I think that's more of a comment than Lee Correll and crew
> submitting 39 pieces of legislation. Why is it that so *few* people in
> an organization of 14,000 active members are submitting legislation?
> Think about that one for a bit...
>
> -John Grossi
> Alumni Omicron Iota - WPI
> Alumni Phi Epsilon - Maine Maritime
Why don't more members, especially ACTIVE members, submit legislation?
In my experience as the president of Alpha Tau at Butler University in
Indianapolis (85% female chapter), about 75% of the active body doesn't
care about any of the legislation at all. The rest will only care about
one or two particular subjects... most likely toast song changes and
all-male chapters on co-ed campuses... but doesn't care about the subject
enough to investigate it and write legislation. (I'll reserve from
commenting any further on the said issues to avoid a reply beating this
dead horse any further.) Your average member doesn't care about things
like criteria for honorary membership, region reallignment, anything about
national committee responsiblities, and exactly who says what in the
rituals. Most of the active brothers are here to do service with
friends... have some fun... and that's about it. The alumni are the ones
that right these pages and pages and pages of amendments because 1)
they've been around long enough to have seen the bylaws a lot 2) they're
just super super excited about Alpha Phi Omega and want to make the
fraternity as great as possible. But I think we've got OVERKILL
legislation going on here. Will much of this really make a difference in
the activities of chapters? I find all of these arguments and mailing
after mailing of paperwork very counter-productive to what we're SUPPOSED
to be here for: service. Do any other undergrad actives... you average
Joes that loves APO but just don't go bonkers over legislation... ever
feel this way???
Yours in service,
Sarah Johnson
senior pharmacy major
President, Alpha Tau
Butler University, Indianapolis
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