[23305] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] "A-Phi-Que", "APO", or "A-Phi-O"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Licata)
Tue Dec 17 15:38:12 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:38:07 -0800
Reply-To: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus_apo@yahoo.com>
From: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus_apo@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PMDF.3.95.1021217132615.538987449A-100000@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
sorry... i missed the Ancient Greek class at UMCP.
If the greek people have nothing to do with the
current usage, then why do we call it "The Greek
Alphabet" then? I know why we call the Russian
Alphabet "Cyrilic"... (purely rhetorical!!!!!)
(insert research time here)
Ok... so the first US greek letter fraternity (or
sorority) is over 200 years old. I haven't found why
they chose their letters, but one could expect that a
standarised "Greek Alphabet" was a pre-existing
condition.... with established pronounciations and an
associated range of scholarship...
(http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/sam/WebPages/FraternalHistory.htm)
And what does not going to Greece have to do with
anything -- the history of Greece is more of a
socio-political legacy than anything else. The Greek
alphabet, from my limited educational background,
seems to bespeak of scholarship, education, and
relative enlightenment. (ok... so I know the Greek
people did not think highly of women, and democracy
was a very different concept to them...)
Well... heck. Have a field day then... since there is
no historical basis for our title or what the greek
letters mean, then all we have is our standardized
understanding to give our organization meaning. And if
everybody has a different understanding, then where is
the unity?? If you want to pronounce the letters
differently, who is there to stop you.... Perhaps I
will just adopt the character sequence of "^&@", call
it Caret And At, and that will be my representation of
Alpha Phi Omega. It's all the same organization...
same values, same history. I'm just using different
characters to symbolize the name.
> > Sorry, but I'm tired of the division. We are all
> > Brothers in Alpha Phi Omega.... let's keep it that
> > way.
> Then why slam the brothers at Historically black
> schools?
*geesh* I knew somebody would say something... I spent
far too much time making sure the language was generic
enough to accomodate all subcultures, not any in
particular. I'm not slamming anybody....
Just trying to demonstrate that, while diversity is
good, that there still needs to be a basic unity.
:jeremy
^&@
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