[23989] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] question about advisors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Cashman)
Thu Oct 30 23:32:25 2003
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:32:18 -0800
Reply-To: Derek Cashman <derek_cashman@yahoo.com>
From: Derek Cashman <derek_cashman@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <20031031020623.47389.qmail@web13406.mail.yahoo.com>
There's currently no policy regarding brothers
becoming advisors for their home chapters. Although I
personally would strongly discourage it. Alpha Phi
Omega is first and foremost a collegiate service
organization (the operative word here being
"collegiate"). While it's great that there are
brothers that want to be involved after graduation, I
personally think it's not a good idea for a recent
graduate to become an advisor to the chapter they
pledged. Advisors are supposed to look at things
objectively, and without bias. This is really hard to
do if you pledged this chapter, and even more
difficult if you just graduated and still have a lot
of friends in the chapter.
That being said, I think the fraternity really needs
to develop its alumni volunteer system better. There's
a lot of alumni of this fraternity that are largely
being underutilized simply because there are very
little mechanisms for them to get involved. Alumni
Associations, the few that there are, are really not
very developed, and few are very long-lasting. There
are staff opportunities, yes, but how many staff
members join staff and stay with it for longer than,
say, two years (yes, I know there are many staffers
that have been "active" with staff for a long time,
but I would be interested to see statistics on the
percentage that stay with it). I think there's still a
lot of new staffers that join staff and then the
communication between them and the Section Chair or RD
diminishes, and the new staffers are not heard from
again.
But not I'm beginning to delve into staff, and off the
original topic of advisors. Anyway, I think new
alumni, particularly those that are really close to
their chapters and very active, need to be better
presented with future options in APO rather than just,
"if you're still in town after you graduate we'll make
you an advisor and you can still hang with us." But
the bottom line is that the internal volunteer and
alumni network needs definite strengthening. But we'll
leave that up to the National Alumni & Internal
Volunteer Development Committee.
Cheers!
--- Rachel Kuhn <iceangel99@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brothers--
> I'm trying to find this info on the national website
> but can't. The chapter I work with is having
> questions about advisors. I understand that four
> are needed. What is the breakdown: I recall that
> there needs to be faculty, scouting, etc. Also, is
> there a national bylaw or policy on "time away" for
> a brother who graduates and wishes to advise the
> chapter they pledged? (I know it was a year at my
> chapter but that may differ elsewhere.) If someone
> can either refresh my memory on this or send me to
> the right website (i got a new computer and lost
> most of my bookmarks) I'd appreciate it!
> In lfs
> Rachel Kuhn
> Zeta Delta alum
> Section 89 Staff; section rep to EN chapter
>
>
>
> Rachel Kuhn
>
> Graduate Assistant
> Office of Professional Development
> Syracuse University
> 250 Huntington Hall
> (315) 443-4696
>
> Alpha Phi Omega
> Section 89 Staff
>
> rmkuhn@syr.edu
> iceangel99@yahoo.com
>
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Derek J. Cashman (derek_cashman@yahoo.com) (derek.cashman@vcu.edu)
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Medicinal Chemistry
MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University
Technology & Electronic Communications (TEC) Coordinator
National Media & Technology Committee
Alpha Phi Omega; Region III
"A Drug is any substance which, when injected into a rat, produces a publishable, scientific paper."
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