[23089] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] APO and constitutional rights
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Packy Anderson)
Fri Nov 1 07:36:25 2002
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:36:12 -0500
Reply-To: packy@dardan.com
From: Packy Anderson <packy@DAFFY.DARDAN.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <000c01c28199$eb0814f0$ad69fea9@mark> from "Mark Allen Stratton
[mark_stratton@YAHOO.COM]" at "Nov 1, 2002 06:29:18 am"
Folks, I think we're forgetting one important element here. Alpha Phi
Omega charters are granted to SCHOOLS, not to groups of students. Schools
are perfectly within their rights to decide that they don't want one. When
a chapter of APO is formed at a particular campus, the students in that
chapter become, in a very real way, representatives of that insitution in
their dealings with the surrounding community.
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If a chapter *were* to be founded outside the auspices of a school, they
wouldn't be able to identify themselves as being associated with the
school, because the institution could file a suit to prevent them from
using it's name. A public school may or may not be required to allow a
group not affiliated with the instituion to use/rent meeting space, but
they can (and often do) tell them they cannot use other institutional
services to advertize themselves.
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In the end, it's better that a school that doesn't want a chapter of Alpha
Phi Omega on it's campus not have one, regardless of whether the individual
students have a constitutional right to form one. Keeping a chapter
running is a lot of work even in the best of circumstances, but putting
students in the situation of having to organize, recruit and operate
completely without the assistance or recognition of their educational
institution is, in my humble opinion, cruel and not in keeping with the
ideals of APO.
--
Packy Anderson packy@dardan.com
Section 96 Staff
"The wise writer, I think, writes for the youth of his own generation,
the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
