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Re: [APO-L] Proposal Question: B-02-035 & B-02-036: Raise Initiate Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Tu)
Tue Oct 22 23:44:59 2002
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:28:47 -0400
Reply-To: Jennifer Tu <jtu@MIT.EDU>
From: Jennifer Tu <jtu@MIT.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <007d01c27a1c$b83d1900$2a00a8c0@JamesAthlon>
> fees go up. The argument that a Freshman will choose a cheap to join
> service club over paying a $100 pledge fee for APO tells me someone thinks a
> particular chapter's program and/or being in APO is worth less than $100.
>
> Why can't the logic many of us have used to encourage someone to join APO
> instead of just signing up here and there to do service at the "campus
> service desk" also be used to answer the questions as to why it costs $100
> to pledge? If APO and its chapters don't have enough value to combat the
> "non-committal come when you want to" campus service desk, even being free
> wouldn't make things better.
When I decided to pledge APO, I couldn't have cared less about heritage or
standing of some fraternity. All I cared about was being able to go do
service with other people, and I'd met and liked some people who said they
were part of some service organization called APO. Beginning to
appreciate being part of a fraternity was something I picked up during,
not before, my first year with APO. If I'd been told I'd have to pay
$100 to join --- or worse, I _should_ pay $100 to join because not only is
APO a service organization, it's a service _fraternity_ --- I would have
laughed, mocked, and sold my soul to another group that I might have
thought had its priorities in line. But, since pledge fees were
comprable to annual Girl Scout fees, I cheerfully paid up and got sucked
in.
This year, when recruiting and talking with prospectives, I didn't
babble happily about 76 years of history of some organization they've
never heard about. I mostly talked about our cardinal principles of
Leadership, Friendship, and Service. Because that's what got me
interested and keeps me excited about APO. yiLFS,
--Jennifer Tu
Alpha Chi, MIT
