[6663] in APO-L
Re: Service Hour Requirement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Brindle)
Fri Sep 10 09:25:19 1993
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 08:03:59 EST
Reply-To: Nathan Brindle <NBRINDLE%INDYCMS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: Nathan Brindle <NBRINDLE%INDYCMS.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message of Fri,
10 Sep 1993 00:01:17 -0500 from <LISTSERV@VM.CC.PU RDUE.EDU>
<Insert standard advisor disclaimer here> :)
Jeffery Woodford causes me to make an interesting observation...in paraphrase,
his reply to Marc Boffardi indicates that his chapter does not have a
service hour requirement for actives but does for pledges. (If I misunder-
stood, please correct me! My mind is fuzzy this morning.)
One of the reasons Tau Omicron chapter has a service hour requirement (20
hrs/semester, all on approved APO projects) is <because> the pledges <do>
have a service hour requirement (20 hrs/pledge semester, 5 of which can be
"outside" hours). If we did not require this of the actives, we would be
in violation of the university's anti-hazing policy, which is in essence,
the pledges cannot be required to do anything the actives are not required
to do.
We have instituted in the last semester or so the idea of a 3-member project
which (if reported to the VPS beforehand) counts as an "APO" project. This
has made it easier for everyone, particularly since we are not a residential
campus and our members are spread all over a 400-square-mile metropolitan
area. We have not had a <major> problem meeting the hour requirements (even
some of us advisors have done it!) and everyone understands the rationale
behind it...which helps.
This is NOT to say that a "no requirement" policy is necessarily bad. There
are chapters where it works (Tau Lambda at Rose-Hulman, if you guys haven't
changed it) and I would be the last person to advocate changing. In our
case, having a requirement works and keeps us in compliance with policy.
My advisorly $.02, YiLFS,
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