[6833] in APO-L
Re: Hi!...I'm new!...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Nyman)
Fri Oct 1 08:19:20 1993
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 18:35:45 EST
Reply-To: Rick Nyman <enyman@vtucs.cc.vt.edu>
From: Rick Nyman <enyman@vtucs.cc.vt.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In message (no message ID) you write:
=>I use "official" in quotes since it does not reflect the true number of
=>active brothers in Iota Phi -- currently at about 100 members. We have a
=>whooping 27 members for eleven offices in our Ex-Com and I am one of four
Wow, that is quite a few. Zeta Beta fluctuates between 80 and 110
active members with fall and spring pledge classes and graduation. We
only have 10 exec board positions. They are: President, Service VP
(she has 2 assistants as well as about 20 service chairs of one or 2
people working below her. They each concentrate on one project or
group of projects, such as SHARE, Bloodmobile, etc.), Membership VP,
Friendship VP, Pledgemaster (he is an exec board officer, not under
the MVP, Secretary, Historian, Treasurer, Alumni Secretary, and
Seargeant at arms.
=>SAA's. Although we have fun at the many service projects we have each
=>weekend, I feel we still don't achieve the full sense of brotherhood as I
=>felt when I first pledged. There are too many members who just disappear
=>after the pledge term ends. Some also say that we concentrate on the pledges
=>too much (10 weeks) so actives who aren't officers don't get any attention.
=>Some say the pledges burn out after they are activated. I dunno, what do you
Well, I have been told that our pledge program is impossibly hard, but
at least our chapter does not seem to have any problems with it. We
require books and pins (we include the name tags with the pins) during
pledging, interviewing all active brothers, as well as the active
brother requirements of 45 hours a semester, don't miss 3 meetings
without a good reason (classes are a good reason, of course; pledges
are required to go to pledge meetings instead of brother ones.
Brother ones are optional except for 2 'joint' meetings that are
required for both pledges and brothers.) dues, etc.
=> - forming small "fellowship groups" during general meetings to
=>promote interaction
=> - calling up actives each week to announce service or fellowship
=>events
Are actives usually at meetings? We make all announcements at the
brothers meetings, except for last minute stuff that goes to
voicemail. (in the student center, you might check with your
campuses)
=> - minimum active requirements--9 of 14 meetings, 10 service hours, 4
=>service projects, 3 fellowship events, 1 interchapter event...[this has its
=>advantages, but the paperwork is enormous--not to mention that people will
=>concentrate too much on requirements and not the service itself.]
Requirements are kind of a necessary evil. Basically what it does for
us is give us an 'official' active membership that is more dedicated
than those that would just hang on. For those that do not make
requirements, they are suspended, which sounds worse than it is. All
you lose is voting privilages and the ability to have little brothers
or be a service chair, etc. But the majority of people don't have any
problem getting hours, some struggle a bit, and others just don't seem
to worry about it. They are still welcome at all service projects,
and other events.
=>p.s. - How do you retrieve APO-L logs from the past? And how do I get
=>the listserver's general information guide through the network? I've tried
=>everything the APO-L intro text said and it never worked. Someone please
=>help me!
Do you want to do a specific search or do you want the entire thing?
One thing that you can do for general help is send the command
help
to the listserv, much the same way as you sent the subscribe command.
If you want to do specific searches, I will post instructions if
enough people express interest (email).
Rick Nyman Alumni Secretary
enyman@vt.edu Zeta Beta chapter address:
Brother, Zeta Beta (Virginia Tech) Internet:APHIO@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Pledged Spring 92 Bitnet:APHIO@vtvm1
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our
room on this earth. -W. Grenfell
If messages bounce, try: enyman@mail.vt.edu or enyman@vtucs.cc.vt.edu.
Thanks...
