[19986] in APO-L
Re: Two things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William J Turner)
Mon Jan 25 18:28:22 1999
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:58:41 -0500
Reply-To: William J Turner <wjturner@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
From: William J Turner <wjturner@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
On Monday, January 25, 1999 4:38 PM, Alpha Phi Omega [SMTP:apo@INDIANA.EDU]
wrote:
> Hi all! Long time lurker, first time poster. Has anyone ever considered
> Nationals starting on Jan. 2? I know that here at Indiana, we still have
> plenty of break left after New Year's. Are there schools that go back
> that early?
NC State for one starts class on 4 Jan this year. Last year it was 7 Jan,
and the year before 8 Jan. Always the next week after the first. I
believe all 16 campuses of the UNC system do. (Ony 7 or 8 have APO
chapters, though, I think.) I'm sure there are others out there, too.
As someone else already pointed out, you're still outside of that week
between Christmas and New Years when comapnies are most likely to shut
down. After loosing a whole week, they are more than likely going to start
back up as soon as possible after the 1st.
> Second...just a technical point. Someone said that by writing APO, we're
> calling ourselves Alpha Rho Omega (I believe). Actually, we'd be calling
> ourselves Alpha Rho Omicron, if memory serves correctly.
Depends if you're talking straight greek letters (in which case APO is how
you'd write Alpha Rho Omicron), or they're latin-letter equilents, in which
case alpha became a, pi became p, and omicron and omega both became o.
Then APO is still correct. However, APhiO is a cross between the two, and
thus can never really be correct either way you go. It is the hardest to
justify. I could just as correctly use AlphaPO, APOmega, AlphaPOmega,
APhiOmega, AlphaPhiO. None have any basis in which to be called correct.
