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Re: [APO-L] Proposal Question, Raising Fee's for Actives, pledges,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M Thompson)
Tue Oct 22 16:02:31 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:02:28 -0700
Reply-To: M Thompson <towerm@HOTMAIL.COM>
From: M Thompson <towerm@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Greetings Brothers-
I've read with interest a number of these replies and from my background
in APO which now numbers a bit closer to several decades in a number of
roles, (Life Member being one), I'd like to agree with Brother Stromberg in
stating that raising the AAMD's instead of pledge and active fee's would be
the best idea of the proposals because the rising cost of university
attendance is putting the idea of a fraternal membership out of reach for
many already.
The PRESS ENTERPRIZE (daily newspaper of the Inland Empire - S.
California) today (October 22, 2002) states that last year Universities
nationwide raised their fee's accross the board by 10% and private
universities raised their's 6%. This money comes out of the pockets of our
entering students, who now have much less to spend in these days of higher
unemployment and jobs which used to fall off the cherry tree - are now much
harder to find, and so money being tight- they look for ways to conserve. We
don't want to be "conserved" out of their lives!
I'd like to point out also that being a member of Alpha Phi Omega is not
about being part of a rich and well-heeled bunch of snobs which might be the
case if we raise the cost of pledging and activation beyond the reach of our
poorer minority students who fill many of our finest chairs in college
today. Being wealthy doesn't mean you are any more entitiled to serve your
country, nor does it mean that you should belong to an exclusive fraternity.
We need a broad-based selection of members, brains and intellect are not
limited to the wealthy. Many of this countries finest leaders in past and
present generations came from poor stock and our fraternity has been blessed
with some of those finest minds who joined us in their youth and were shaped
by our committment to unselfish service to mankind. Let's not change that by
pumping up the membership fee's so high that they can't afford to join or
stay members.
Brother Murt Thompson, SDSK, DSK (3)
Sigma Tau, Omega Sigma, (active alumni)
Alpha Delta Theta (Advisor alumni)
S. California
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