[19556] in APO-L
Re: Honorary Membership
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph M. Fisher)
Sat Oct 31 16:19:20 1998
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 16:18:52 -0500
Reply-To: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
From: "Joseph M. Fisher" <jfisher@RacerX.mse.jhu.edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.96.981031145421.50680A-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU>
One approach that I've seen before is to invite candidates to pledge
events and such, and induct them with a pledge class, but not to make the
pledge program a requirement per se. In other words, give them the
opportunity to see how APO works... maybe have them go to special events
or something, but nothing really intense.
I'm not sure if this is the most common way of doing things... but
consider that honoraries are not undergrads... they probably have a
full-time job, and maybe a family. You ought to expect no more time from
them than your advisors give you. And probably less... you are not asking
them to hold any responsibility in APO, so why put them through the
training?
-- Cyrano (advisor, Johns Hopkins PG)
