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Re: [APO-L] Ritual issues was(RE: [APO-L] Logo Issue, and side bar)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Ryan Gallagher)
Sat Mar 29 16:07:51 2003
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:07:49 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
From: Michael Ryan Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Uh, that's why pledges are not required to wear the pins in the shower (one
anyway)...button style would be possible but painful :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Finder, Randolph J Mr NGB-ARNG" <Randolph.Finder@ngb.army.mil>
To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:34 AM
Subject: [APO-L] Ritual issues was(RE: [APO-L] Logo Issue, and side bar)
> > At National Conventions, everything is potentially up for change; the
> > active delegates could decide unanimously that rituals
> > should, wherever
> > possible, be held in public locations, or that it is allowed and
> > recommended for rituals to be held in the nude, or that the purpose of
> > the Fraternity is to seek, through peaceful and legal means, the
> > replacement of the President of the United States as Head of
> > State with
> > a hereditary monarch. Are any of these likely? No.
>
> Um, remind me, if we hold our rituals in the nude, *WHERE* do we put the
> pledge pin?
>
> This paragraph actually led me to thinking abaout two more serious things
to
> consider about rituals...
>
> 1) Do any chapters have any suggestions to avoid the following situation.
> Jane Prospective receives an invite to pledge and comes to the pledging
> ceremony in a beautiful dress that just happens to be strapless. Where is
> the pin placed and what if the one pinning is a male brother? Do you tell
> Jane and the fellow female invitees to wear dresses that actually have
> necklines?
>
> 2) I've heard of chapters holding rituals in public places, the most
public
> being an *early* morning ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
DC.
> Any feelings on this.
>
