[6984] in APO-L
Thank you
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT)
Wed Oct 20 12:20:49 1993
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 09:10:51 -0500
Reply-To: THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT <Z_CLAMPFFETR@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
From: THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT <Z_CLAMPFFETR@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Brothers,
Thank you for the responses to my question. Although no two answers
were exactly the same, you all cleared up the mystery for me. I really
appreciate it.
I agree that this is truly a great tragedy, however, I think it also
goes along with the lines of the kids who were lying in the road to test
their bravery (as seen in the movie "the program") in wondering just how
stupid some people can be. Perhaps they just got what they deserved?
This whole issue, the root of it, not the loss, are the practices and
traditions of our pledging process. No, not talking about the ritual, but
the "extra curricular activities" a chapter may partake in that are not
official activities relating to APO Pledgeship. I know that almost every
chapter has a few of them. Perhaps this tragedy should make us all look
at the things we do because they are "tradition," or because "that's the way
we've always done it," and wonder about what we are really doing.
Anyway, what is the national position on each of the chapters having
their own seperate "ECA's"? It seems like there should be some sort of official
position on this issue, and if there is not one - it should be formulated
pretty soon. Hopefully, this would act as a deterrant against something like
this happening again. Hopefully just plain common sense would prevail and
we'd never hear about something like this again, but people are people, and
we do make mistakes - obviously some more serious than others.
In LFS,
Todd Clampffer
Nu Sigma Chapter
S. F. Austin State
z_clampffetr@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
