[23383] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Convention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (laura Fowler)
Sun Jan 5 21:12:02 2003
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:20:54 -0500
Reply-To: laura Fowler <fowlermom@mindspring.com>
From: laura Fowler <fowlermom@mindspring.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030103230457.031709d8@mail.earthlink.net>
Just two things
- Congrulations to Dave for receiving the National DSK
and a Big Thank You to Emily and the rest of the floor services and SSAs
for their work during the reference committee meetings, peanut gallery and
the leg session.
Mom
aka
Laura Fowler
[helped with the peanut gallery]
Alumus: Mu Mu Chapter
Advisory Chair: Delta Iota and Gamma Zeta Chapter
Communtiy Adviro: Mu Mu Chapter
Past Section 72 Chair
At 11:12 PM 1/3/03 -0800, dave o'leary wrote:
>At 10:06 PM 1/1/2003 -0500, Dan Kreifus wrote:
>>Hey Brothers,
>> I must confess I was sick in bed for most of convention, as luck would
>>have it. But I was on the floor for some of delegation.
>>
>>The one thing that really bothered me was that everyone was clear to point
>>out that the national office is badly in debt, but no one wanted to be the
>>one to help out a bit.
>
>A couple of quick clarifications (not intended as a complaint against
>Dan):
>
>1/ Please don't refer to the National Fraternity as "the national office".
>The national office is both a physical building and a group of paid staff
>who administer the fraternities activities on a day to day basis.
>
>2/ The National Fraternity is not in debt, however there has been a deficit
>the last couple of years (i.e. expenses exceed income). Debt implies
>that liabilities exceed assets (more or less) which is quite different.
>
>>Granted, cutbacks can be made on the executive board side as well. But an
>>effort has to be done from both ends.
>
>The National Board (program directors, etc.) decide how to spend money,
>but much of it is based on directives from the students via the national
>convention. Expenses can be reduced to a certain extent (through decisions
>of the national board and staff of the national office) but of course the
>programs are likely to suffer.
>
> dave
>
