[22529] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Research Results
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JayBEE!)
Mon Apr 22 16:48:43 2002
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Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:48:21 -0400
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From: JayBEE! <JayBEE@25-52.ZZN.COM>
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-->At this point though it's pretty much
irrelevant, beyond the interesting
historical debate of events nearly 30 years
ago.
Actually this information is not irrelevant to
those individuals in all male chapters. When
you are recruiting males into this
organization, a frequent question comes up and
that is "What happened?" That's because the
total history still is being highlighted in all
male chapters. When you explain it all, they
are able to understand the process of what
leads us up to today.
Alpha Phi Omega begins in 1925 as a fraternity
dedicated to supplemental manhood developement,
using the principles of the Boy Scouts. Our
founder Frank Reed Horton died in 1966. In the
early 70's UCLA got suspended for sending in
female membership applications, first initial
last name. Then there was Title IX of 1974.
This didn't directly affect Alpha Phi Omega
because Alpha Phi Omega wasn't federally
funded. At the 1974 convention, there was the
creation of affiliate membership for females
associated with Alpha Phi Omega. This only
gave a membership definition to all females who
were apart of Alpha Phi Omega in some way.
Then in 1976, there was the abolishment of
affliate membership, giving females full
membership into Alpha Phi Omega. And the
reiteration of "all chapters have the right to
determine their own membership". After that,
the transfer of membership from all male to
coed, wasn't quick enough. Several chapters
did not change, they stayed all male. They
also foolishly didn't pay their chapter dues as
they should have. And then in 1986, the
National Board (not the undergraduates)
installed a rule that would systematically get
rid of the all male chapters. It would remove
chapters that didn't become coed and appeared
to be negligent in paying their dues. So if
they become inactive for ANY reason, they would
have to try to begin again as coed entity, or
not become accepted back into Alpha Phi Omega.
This made it open season on many all male
chapters. Some chapters were removed
intentionally, by accident(efforts to correct
situations were missed) or by discovered hazing
incidents.
I dislike the thought of making every chapter
the same. Because diversity is not just skin
deep. There are differences what we find
interesting to entertain ourselves; the music
we listen to; the way we communicate; who and
what we identify with; associated heritage;
everybodys hero is not superman and even a
difference in the way we show respect and
humility. Even all male chapters need to
embrace the differences of non-all-male
chapters. When you respect the differences you
begin to grow as a nation and as an
organization.
I am an alumnus, but there many curious
individuals. Because when you read a book, and
you don't get entire story, you become
curious. Since this organization belongs to
undergraduates, I would like to make sure they
have the entire story. Then they can make any
changes as they see fit. If they see something
they would like to change then that is
something all of us would have to live with.
LSF
JayBEE!
Humility is must be learned
(you have to want it to
acquire it), but Imperialism
is hereditary, (you have to
want to remove it from your
system).
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