[23051] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Joel Bryant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JayBEE!)
Wed Oct 30 00:38:05 2002
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 00:37:24 -0500
Reply-To: JayBEE! <JayBEE@25-52.ZZN.COM>
From: JayBEE! <JayBEE@25-52.ZZN.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
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#> I've said it before, and I still state it. I don't like the <BR>
#> concept of A Phi Q. We are a co-ed, multi-colored, DIVERSE <BR>
#> Fraternity. If some people would like to have an all-male, all-<BR>
#> black Fraternity, they should go start it. <BR>
<BR>
(Fuzzy, what is the concept A-Phi-Q? How can you begin to like what <BR>
you do not understand. It's like a nation that has a culture that <BR>
is not to your liking. And because you do not understand you want <BR>
to bomb it from it's exsitence. I myself was culturely born into <BR>
it. Like some members are born into a coed style of membership. In <BR>
our world, we fitted to the fraternity as our fraternity fitted to <BR>
our culture. Then, I was apart of a DIVERSE fraternity, because it <BR>
accepted us the way we were. But what is DIVERSE? Is it every race <BR>
that conforms to what you like today, or is it every race including <BR>
their culture. In Alpha Phi Omega, we not like a diverse America <BR>
like we should be. And even in that case, America is not a melting <BR>
pot, it's more like mixed vegetables. You can mix it all, but corn <BR>
is corn and string beans is string beans. You should not want it to <BR>
be a melting pot and try to melt off what you do not want. Or even <BR>
melt the corn until they turn into string beans. The effort should <BR>
be an attempt to understand the desires, not force conformity.<BR>
<BR>
#>They should NOT sully the name of this fine Fraternity with hazing<BR>
#>and other negative things. Call the hazing "bonding" if you would <BR>
#>like. It still doesn't sit well with me.<BR>
<BR>
Hazing never sits well with me either. I hate to break this to you, <BR>
but not all A-Phi-Ques haze, and not all are black. I really think <BR>
that hazing is not neccessary to develop a dedicated fraternity <BR>
brother. This idea, that Ay-Phi-Que is synonomous with hazing is an <BR>
idea you allowed to enter your head by outside the ring <BR>
understanding. When you are on the outside of issue you can only <BR>
see the images your mind makes up. And just like an incomplete <BR>
story, your mind automatically creates the ending. This is not <BR>
saying that hazing never occurred in Alpha Phi Omega, because I know <BR>
it did. But not even half of all hazing incidents was created by Ay-<BR>
Phi-Que chapters. Being an Ay-Phi-Que, I'll still stop what I see <BR>
as being non-appropriate by undergraduates if I see it. But admit I <BR>
still hear the horror storys, but I still here the horror stories <BR>
in non-AyPhiQue chapters as well. <BR>
<BR>
I just don't know where you are going with your statements so I have <BR>
to attempt to put an end to the speculations that all Ay-Phi-Ques <BR>
are the same and that they always haze.<BR>
<BR>
JayBEE! <BR>
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