[24211] in APO-L
[APO-L] Scotland's Sunday Herald, Spring Break, Social Greeks... and APO
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charlie Zimmerman, APO-L Moderator)
Wed Mar 17 15:46:50 2004
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:46:38 -0500
Reply-To: CharlieZ@aol.com
From: "Charlie Zimmerman, APO-L Moderator" <CharlieZ@aol.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
All -
While an official response may or may not be warranted, I would recommend that we NOT bombard the Sunday Herald with letters and e-mails proclaiming our virtues or (worse, IMHO) defending APO at the expense of social greek organizations.
Remember that it was members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, "who were outstanding for high ideals and clean living" that joined with Frank Reed Horton to found Alpha Phi Omega, and that even today many of our brothers and sisters rightfully enjoy membership both in our organization and a social fraternity or sorority.
Personally, I like to think that among other things, we offer some of the best elements of the greek fraternity concept, and simply leave it at that. There's little benefit in throwing rocks.
I have sent a copy of the article (or a link to it) to Bob London, our National Executive Director, and believe that he or another official representative of the fraternity would be in the best position to send a formal response, if one is needed.
Further, let's keep in mind that the focus of the article was not Alpha Phi Omega, nor even (despite the title) all about Fraternities. It was about the customs of spring break in the U.S., and the role of fraternities was actually secondary to the whole. We were mentioned in one paragraph out of 26.
As Randy put it, it was "sort of annoying."
Fraternally,
Charlie Zimmerman
APO-L Moderator
charliez@aol.com
