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[APO-L] Toast Song
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Gallagher)
Mon May 24 15:23:42 2004
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 15:23:39 -0400
Reply-To: Michael Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
From: Michael Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
I know this gets older every second, but...the Toast Song is an important
aspect of the fraternity, so again I bring it up. Can amandments be
proposed even though we won't know the findings of the Toast Song Committee
until the convention itself, & if Toast Song amendments are proposed without
knowing the committee's recommmendations, will that make said proposer or
proposers make fools of themselves?
I have found a legal precedent, I believe, to removing "men" from the Toast
Song. This would not specify what should replace it. I was reading a
acquaintance brother's Web site, and this brother commented on how we our
Toast Song is always an issue. This brother linked to a CNN article
explaining a change removing "men" from the Naval Academy's Alma Mater. The
Academy went co-ed in 1976 just as we did, although I'm not sure relatively
when the first female enrolled. Here's the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/20/naval.academy.song.ap/index.html
Here's the supporting data (unfortunately, no decision came up in the
search, but the words are as the article says).
http://www.usna.edu/USNABand/FAQ/Lyrics.htm#bluegold
I know this seems a bit like the 1930s or 40s Miracle on 34th Street
reasoning, but if the Department of Defense makes such a change, shouldn't
we? After all, government changes have spurred actions by organizations in
reactin for a very long time. Case in point our own going co-ed.
Michael Gallagher
Zeta Sigma Historian (& a Political Science major)
