[7007] in APO-L
Re: Thank you
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey N. Woodford)
Fri Oct 22 02:33:51 1993
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 02:15:10 -0400
Reply-To: "Jeffrey N. Woodford" <jw53+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: "Jeffrey N. Woodford" <jw53+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Added.AglKJ_O00UdbQu5U4p@andrew.cmu.edu>
THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT <Z_CLAMPFFETR@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU> writes:
> 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 officia
l
> 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.
To tell you the truth, I kinda like the current one: anything's OK
except hazing.
In LF&S,
-Jeff
Kappa, Carnegie Mellon University
