[20081] in APO-L
Re: Bids in APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jgrossi)
Mon Feb 1 08:21:59 1999
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:14:23 -0500
Reply-To: jgrossi <jgrossi@bbnplanet.com>
From: jgrossi <jgrossi@BBNPLANET.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
> That's apparently up for interpretation - I tried to enforce exactly that
> section, and was told by my regional director that the entire National
> Pledging Standards are no more than guidelines, not hard and fast rules.
It is my understanding on that point that the phrase "should" is the key
catch their, leaving it open to interpretation. I've asked this SAME question,
owing to the fact that I have a chapter in my Section who runs a four week
pledge program due to some unique features of their school calendar. So in
essence it comes down to a judgement call of the Section Chair, Region Director,
and chapter. There are parts of the National Pledging Standards that are open to
FAR less interpretation, such as the hazing and membership clauses. In many
cases in this document you need to carefully read word by word, as EVERY word is
weighing in the meaning.
> (I would disagree, but when it's an RD disagreeing with a Section Chair,
> the RD generally seems to win)
Actually at the last convention legislation was submitted by John
Anderson, which removed a Section Chairs ability to disagree with a Regional
Director from the national bylaws. Up until that point it was assumed that an RD
and an SC would work in concert, and both be responsible to the students which
elected them. As of this past convention it's made very clear that an SC elected
by the students but works for the Regional Director. Very clearly the problem
here is that it puts the SC in the role of serving two possibly disagreeing
masters, of which one has a much stronger power to get their way.
I would like to think that an RD and an SC could be mature and open
minded enough to work together in their goals of implementing the conventions
directives and resolve their differences of opinion and style without resort of
one of them pulling rank... this though does not seem to be the case.
Yours in Service
John Grossi
Section 94 Chairman - Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont
International Extension Coordinator - Quebec
