[23105] in APO-L
[APO-L] Issue Two
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JayBEE!)
Tue Nov 5 23:53:37 2002
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:53:18 -0500
Reply-To: JayBEE! <JayBEE@25-52.ZZN.COM>
From: JayBEE! <JayBEE@25-52.ZZN.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
<html><head><meta Name='keywords' Content='commtouch, pronto, mail, free email, free, branded, web based, free web based email, communications, internet, software, advertising banners, e-mail, free software'></head><body ><div align='left'><font ><blockquote><blockquote><TT>"Issue Two: Ay-Phi-Que Hazes"<BR>
<BR>
What was said---->Its the 21st Century, not the 1950s. <BR>
One issue I do have in general with APQ's is their use of membership<BR>
practices that either NEVER had a place in APO, or no longer have a <BR>
place in APO. <BR>
<BR>
These are mostly preconceived notions that developed from phone call<BR>
investigations. You actually have an idea of how some campuses <BR>
were in 80's and 70's. This view hasn't even been taking place in <BR>
the 90's. The membership practices in Ay-Phi-Que have never been<BR>
unilateral. So how could all of them be the same? <BR>
<BR>
I know how plenty of APhiQ's pledged. Some people think that you <BR>
have <BR>
to pledge hard to get dedicated brothers, and that's what we must <BR>
have<BR>
been doing. That's been the extent of most investigations. Hard to <BR>
explain? No. We just know how to pledge individuals and this <BR>
pledging develops dedication. Is that the issue here? It is easy <BR>
to <BR>
stand outside a functioning pledge program to see how it works and <BR>
say <BR>
that something sinister must be going on. But how about really <BR>
giving<BR>
the program a fair shake and investigate from within not from a <BR>
clock <BR>
tower. I know we are different races but you can't only pre judge<BR>
from afar how real is it. It is only the pictures you create in <BR>
your <BR>
imagination. I'm a real dreamer, (movie style) so I would have a <BR>
problem<BR>
with some pledge styles as well if I go on just what stories I <BR>
heard. But <BR>
I'm a brother, not a brother-in-law. I deserve the same fair trial <BR>
by jury<BR>
as all the other brothers (Male and Female). Not "uh I heard <BR>
something<BR>
and it since the news made it to me then it must be true." This is <BR>
how <BR>
several chapters of Ay-Phi-que where removed. And you have to <BR>
believe <BR>
that your national would be in your corner, since we are in the same<BR>
organization. But in regions Ay-phi-que didn't have enought clout. <BR>
So until you walk the path, you can only hope to understand it. I <BR>
long <BR>
for time when there is general understanding and honest <BR>
investigations. <BR>
Because the result of non-fairness is frustrations by all involved.<BR>
I'm actually hearing fairy tales compared to what is really <BR>
happening.<BR>
"Pledgemaster" is not even a title that an Ay-Phi-Que chapter uses.<BR>
<BR>
In developing individuals who will be dedicated members, another <BR>
thing <BR>
to consider is the culture of the fraternity world within the black <BR>
culture. If you are in that culture you know to take your <BR>
membership to any organization seriously, or you'll be taken as a <BR>
joke.<BR>
Many years Ay-Phi-Que brothers were on black campuses or within <BR>
black <BR>
cultures defending themselves on their membership within a "white-<BR>
founded"<BR>
fraternity. We took a stand and developed a program that would <BR>
install<BR>
pride. We believed in the organization, and became an entity with <BR>
our <BR>
own identity, one that we could say that we were proud to be apart <BR>
of <BR>
on our respective campuses. And one that is different that any <BR>
other <BR>
organization. In our world if you don't have, and show pride in the <BR>
organization you are apart of, it will fall apart. <BR>
</TT><br><br><font><p align=left><TT>Humility is must be learned <BR>
(you have to want it to <BR>
acquire it), but Imperialism <BR>
is hereditary, (you have to <BR>
want to remove it from your <BR>
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