[23853] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] APO House rule
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Grossi)
Thu Aug 28 09:29:02 2003
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:14:13 +0000
Reply-To: john_grossi@COMCAST.NET
From: John Grossi <john_grossi@COMCAST.NET>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Simple Observations:
Time spent maintaining a fraternity house, is time you can't spend on your
service program.
You detract from some of APO attractions;
a) low cost
b) fraternity but not Greek
c) focus on service
You also handicap two other things:
a) Your relationship with your school administration -- your different from
ATO and Theta Chi how? Just haven't misbehaved, yet.
b) Your recruiting. Many of APO's core feeder groups are groups that would
never "go greek"
and truthfully having seen the fraternity houses on a number of campuses,
we're doing our members a favor by NOT having them.
Just some thoughts...
-John
> Just a thought to put out there....
>
> Has anyone thought about the purpose of the rule against having an APO house?
>
> I understand it's to prevent parties in the stereotypical nature of Greeks.
But
> lets face facts,
> Members of APO will end up sharing an apt, house, or dorm together. This in
turn
> becomes the "APO House".
>
> On my campus, we don't have an office, because campus activites doesn't issue
> offices to individual greek organizations.
>
> There are a few benifits to allowing a APO house, such as a place hold
meetings,
> ceremonies, and rush activites. It's freedom from limits such as room
> availability, or time. It could also provide storage APO materials that
aren't
> easy to transport.
>
> Now, I can see where problems can come up. It can be made illegal to raise or
> have dues go into renting the APO House. (Obviously won't apply to chapters
> whose schools provide housing). Questions can also be raised about the co-ed
> factor. We are all over 18 (or will be shortly.) Most colleges have co-ed
dorms,
> and provided we don't have males and females in the same room, it shouldn't
be
a
> problem.
>
> This is just a idea for thought, something to discuss, or consider for next
> nationals....
>
> In LFS,
> Dan
