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Re: [APO-L] APO @ school w/considerably more grads...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Stromberg)
Wed May 22 13:01:59 2002
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:51:43 -0700
Reply-To: Chris Stromberg <cstrombe@STANFORD.EDU>
From: Chris Stromberg <cstrombe@STANFORD.EDU>
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Randy,
Although I have not heard of an APO chapter at a school quite that skewed
towards grad and professional students, I don't see why it couldn't
work. There are grad student actives in APO (myself included). Some of us
continued our involvement after pledging as undergrads, while some do
pledge as grad students.
My current chapter (Zeta at Stanford University) has two grad student
members out of about 15 brothers. I pledged at a different chapter, but
the other grad student pledged as a grad student. We also have a majority
of the campus as grad students. The breakdown for us is 6500 undergrads
and 7500 grad and professional.
Now, I will say that it is difficult (at least here) to get grad students
to pledge. If you don't get them early in their grad student career, you
pretty much won't get them. And, as I said, most of our chapter is made up
of undergrads. If you were going to make an effort to start a chapter at
the school in your section, I would suggest finding a couple of brothers
who attend there (at a school that size, there are almost certainly some),
and see if they might be interested. If you can find a couple on a Ph.D.
track, you could have a stable base for a petitioning group for a long
time. Masters and professional students would certainly work, too, but the
average time to degree for a Ph.D. student is now 5 1/2 years, while the
other degrees are usually significantly shorter (with the possible
exception of med school).
Anyway, I don't know if this is helpful for you, or not (or if I am even
being coherent). Good luck.
Chris Stromberg
Zeta Chapter
Stanford University
