[6940] in APO-L
Re: Null and Void
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ping Huang)
Fri Oct 15 16:46:32 1993
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 16:10:03 -0400
Reply-To: pshuang@mit.edu
From: Ping Huang <pshuang@mit.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Perhaps much of the flap about these declarations have to do with
confusion about what "null and void" means. To me, at least, the
declaring a charter "null and void" sounds like a very drastic action.
However, the term is mentioned only once in the copy of the bylaws I
have (pre-1992) and declaring a charter "null and void" is how the
President is supposed to declare a chapter inactive, and is less severe
an action than revoking a chapter's charter, which indeed can only be
done at a National Convention.
(The official impact of a charter revocation, according to the old
bylaws I have, is that no petitioning group will be recognized at that
campus for two years following. Anyone know if there have been any
campuses where a charter was revoked and another chapter eventually
restarted there? Do they get new Greek letters to designate their
charter? I know chapters which go inactive need to go through a
rechartering process but keep the same Greek letters.)
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Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service,
Ping Huang, Service Vice President, Fall 1993
AX chapter of APO (at MIT), a co-ed National Service Fraternity
