[23005] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Proposal Question, Raising Fee's for Actives,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Dean)
Tue Oct 22 17:19:25 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:13:07 -0400
Reply-To: rdean71@CS.COM
From: Robert Dean <rdean71@CS.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Well-said, with the exception of the use of the term "poorer minority". I don't think consideration of those who aren't financially wealthy should be limited to minorities. That doesn't serve the greater purpose of Alpha Phi Omega, or society in general.
That brings to mind a question. How would chapters be able to maintain a membership that reflects the economic, and not just gender/racial, diversity of the campus if the fees were raised?
LFS,
Robert
M Thompson <towerm@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 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.
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>Brother Murt Thompson, SDSK, DSK (3)
>Sigma Tau, Omega Sigma, (active alumni)
>Alpha Delta Theta (Advisor alumni)
>S. California
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