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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:46:20 -0400 Reply-To: Rashid Darden <rashid01@HOTMAIL.COM> From: Rashid Darden <rashid01@HOTMAIL.COM> To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU In-Reply-To: <F65aQYrVjYKtWfN3vSA000003ac@hotmail.com> What does being a minority have anything to do with being poor? Rashid -----Original Message----- From: Alpha Phi Omega Discussion List [mailto:APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU] On Behalf Of M Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 4:02 PM To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU Subject: Re: [APO-L] Proposal Question, Raising Fee's for Actives, pledges, or AAMD's 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 _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp
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