[20346] in APO-L
A Phi Q, separate organization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Wed Mar 24 12:52:40 1999
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:49:51 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
WHile I was interested in the comparison between What Jesse wanted APO-USA
to look like and APO-Phil it really isn't a good comparison because
APO-Phil is much consistent than we are. While not all APO-Phil Fraternity
chapters have an Sorority chapter on campus, the National Organization
very much wants to give the same opportunity nationwide.
In many ways a better comparsion is with the Social Fraternity Alpha Delta
Phi. Over the last decade about a half dozen of the chapters in the
Northeast have been forced to go co-ed. In order to keep the chapters and
yet not take the entire fraternity co-ed, they have created Alpha Delta
Phi Society. This is a seperate legal organization and yet the two have
joint National Conferences. The only differene is that ADPHi Fraternity is
all-male and ADPhi Society is co-ed. However I believe that they only way
for a new ADPhi Society chapters to come about is for a school to force an
all-male chapter co-ed.
On a different note. all-male chapters going co-ed. After the initial
group of chapters went officially co-ed after the '76 convention there
were still many chapters that remained all-male. Over the years a good
number of them have decided on their own to go co-ed. NONE of these have
been at Historically black campuses. I only know of two co-apters that
have been at historically black insitutions. One is at Dillard where teh
chapter went co-ed after a rechartering and the other is the chapter at
Howard which somehow managed to recharter in 1986 all-male, but was forced
to go co-ed later when the group had gone down to nothing and was being
revitalized. (By the '76 agreement they should have been co-ed at
rechartering)
I don't believe that Alpha Phi Omega has rechartered a chapter at at
Historically black college since 1986. The people attempting to bring
Alpha Phi Omega at many of these schools there would rather work
underground without the National Organization than have Alpha Phi Omega as
a co-ed organization there.
I don't know if Alpha Phi Omega has ever taken legal action against an
underground groups claiming to be Alpha Phi Omega. I know that there are
groups where this would be a possibility (at least one each in Regions
III, IV and VII).
I don't know how many additional chapters we'd gain if Alpha Phi Omega
could recharter all-male. However I'm reasonably sure they would all be at
Historically black schools.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
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