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Re: [APO-L] Program Directors(& pres/VP) proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Merrill)
Wed Jul 26 16:49:14 2000
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:45:20 -0400
Reply-To: Stephen Merrill <smerrill@MINT.NET>
From: Stephen Merrill <smerrill@MINT.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
My concern on this topic is that we may have to endure several months of
campaigning by interested parties.
APO is about Leadership, Friendship, and Service. Not about politics,
although we have more than our fair share. We have enough already, and
having 3 months of campaigning, would only make it worse. Potential and
actual legislative topics are hot topics on APO-L, imagine if we were
debating PEOPLE on here. Not something I would like to see.
Campaigning does exist already, but it tends to be more subdued, and not
overt, except at convention itself, where it is very much in the open.
The system we have now is by no means perfect, but what I see on the
horizon, I like even less.
YiLFS,
Steve Merrill
Section 94 Chair
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Stratton <stratton@INDY.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [APO-L] Program Directors(& pres/VP) proposal
>Randy (and others):
>
>One of the problems with your proposla (though I will admit it does have
>some interesting possibilities) is thatsomeone may not decide to run until
>just before convention. It is a two year committment and needs to be
>thought through thoroughly.
>
>Additionally, let us suppose that there aren't enough candidates by the
>due date to fill all the positions. How would that be handled at
>convention? Certainly we wouldn't leave those positions out.
>
>I think the current method works just fine (though Brothers who serve on
>the Nominations Committee might think this a GREAT idea :-) )
>
>-Mark
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Randy Finder wrote:
>
>> The National Convention votes on many things: bylaw changes, ritual
>> changes, national officers, time & place of next convention, resolutions
>> and awards. As far as I can tell, On only two of these is information not
>> required to the National Office by September 27th of the convention year:
>> Who is running for the awards and who is running for the Nationally
>> elected offices.
>>
>> My wife(Also a brother) came up with the idea of requiring all of those
>> running for National Offices (Pres/VP/PDs) to put their names into the
>> National Office by the time that bylaw amendments are due. Resumes/CVs
and
>> short statements about why they are running could be distributed with the
>> packet of bylaw amendments sent out to the chapters. I haven't quite
>> figured out what the bylaw ammendment to do this would look like, but I'm
>> interested in opinions. Please let me know how you feel about this:
>> Positive, Negative or indifferent.
>>
>> Thank You
>>
>> Yours in Leadership, Friendship and Service
>> Randolph Finder
>> Kappa chapter alumnus
>> Section 84 (DC&MD) staff
>>
>> --
>> Leadership, Friendship and Service - Alpha Phi Omega
>>
>
>
