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Re: [APO-L] [[APO-L] What is our Bread abd Butter?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JayBEE)
Mon Sep 11 22:32:38 2000
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:32:32 EDT
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From: JayBEE <jaybee3@NETSCAPE.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
I love your attitude Hayim, =
Because your questions are things that
do echos inside me. But I've decided to help and live what I've been
taught in my early years as an Alpha Phi Omega brother. Nationals have
developed a restrictiveness of parents to those that should be considered=
young adults. Every convention just adds tension to the noose. Have
we forgotten why this organization was made? No we have not. We have
just overtime made it into what we felt like it should be for us now.
Today. Not what it has done for others before us. You see, the concept
of service was a very noble concept. And it still is. Matter of fact
it is so noble of a concept that every organization on campus is doing
it. But they are doing this service as a compliment to who they =
already are. We on the other hand have used service as an main reason
anybody should join Alpha Phi Omega. If you do that then a club will
be the result. And those that have been doing just this, usually finds
this offensive, to think that their conception of fraternalism has been
funneled to them instead of allowing them to grasp the entire spirit.
When you do that, the fraternal spirit of Alpha Phi Omega begins to be
washed away, bleached out by rules that have been imaginated by a =
selected few. The sad thing is that these few may be all on one accord
with themselves, but they may never have experience the fraternalism of
those that exist in area as simple as a different part of the world.
What is it about, it is about excercising control. But see, you should
not try to control something with out first investigating all origins.
And don't see just how the control effects the one, but the many. I've
heard of votes being made because of how it will effect a chapter. Each
chapter was thinking of themselves, and not of the organization when =
making that decision. =
What does it take. It takes all of us working together. Everybody has
to be open, to allow the next person to view there opinions and then
listen to those opinions with an open heart first. Not think that there
is an evil undertone. I'm an Alumnus of 20 years being a member of this
organization. Why am I still hanging around. Because I know undergradua=
tes
who need our attention. I believe that we need a =
stronger Alumni program. It's ok to leave Alpha Phi Omega when you =
graduate. But what happens in your wake. Does the chapter go down
because you haven't return to it to give up some of your knowledge. To =
many times we leave the campus and think of Alpha Phi Omega as being =
in are younger years. Why is that? It is because that's how we are
designing Alpha Phi Omega. We already set the stage to expect Alpha =
Phi Omega to be a kid-green-behind-the-ears-scout-clubbing-youth-only
organization, when we don't give any membership to those that may be
interested is the works of service as an alumnus. Think about it.
The course of Alpha Phi Omega seems to steering by the undergraduates.
but look again. It's the alumni that you hear from equally, and look
and the ruling in 1986, where it was formulated that all new chapters
have to coed. If I'm not mistaken that idea didn't materialize from
the undergraduates, but it came from those that where on the Naitonal Mem=
bers
Extention Committee. Please correct me if I'm wrong. All
I'm saying is that this worlds largest fraternal organization is too
big to have a clock tower approach to chapter management. And their
is still serveral Alumni That can help. It use to be that a sectional
representative can start a chapter given the proper paper work. Now
you have to wait until the regional can make it work into their =
schedule. Why? We are getting too parentally restrictive.
There was a person, I believe in some city in Montana, that colored
their hair. The mayor of the city decided to make a law against =
coloring your hair. Of course that law didn't last long. The people
spoke up. But the same type of non-freedom restrictiveness exist in =
Alpha Phi Omega. I can see that being a new rule in Alpha Phi Omega
at rituals if people began to do it often. Think about it.
Bravo Hayim.
Jesse Bridges
ALumnus Alpha Alpha Lambda Chapter
Alcorn State Univeristy =
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JayBEE!
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