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Re: [APO-L] Toast Song
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse Bridges)
Sat May 29 01:10:08 2004
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 01:09:50 -0400
Reply-To: Jesse Bridges <jaybee@bellsouth.net>
From: Jesse Bridges <jaybee@bellsouth.net>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Why isn't the Toast Song declared not an "official" ritual song??
When read this, I get bugged. Why? It's the mentally that nothing is out
of bounds, and everything is up for alteration at any time. It is this
attitude that comes from the dissatisfaction of making the decision to join
Alpha Phi Omega for everything it is. Why even use the name Frank Reed
Horton? Why not use the name of the first female in Alpha Phi Omega? I
think changing the organization from Fraternity to a Society with sisters
and brothers, will fit right in to what individuals who wants to change the
Toast Song, wanted to be in in the first place. I believe if being a
society was more fashionable at the time and Alpha Phi Omega was a society
of sisters and brothers, these individual who wants to change the toast
song, would have joined Alpha Phi Omega National Society over any coed
fraternity.
As things change in Alpha Phi Omega, a little is removed here a little
there, you begin to loose a lot of the pride, strenght, and unique
foundation within what makes this a great organization. I can see a big
difference in the individuals who have taken their knowledge of what they
came into to heart, and the ones that would like to change certain aspects
of the organization for comfort. It's not in the dedication, Anybody can
be dedicated.
You joined it, then you desire to change it because over time you realize
something in it is offensive to you. Something just doesn't seem right does
it? I'm in a fraternity that has a male foundation. I wanted to join the
male founded fraternity. I didn't think that I would mind calling myself a
brother. Maybe I made a mistake. Well since I'm here why don't we move
this couch over here, and those draperies are so yesterday.
You must ask yourself, when did joining an organization that has male
fraternal conatations become offensive to it's members that had a desire to
join for what they saw in it. Usually what happens in Alpha Phi Omega, more
is learn from being a member than was learn while pledging. But the problem
is there will never be any satisfaction point. If the Toast Song is
changed, what will be the next issue that demands a comfort setting. We
will evently be brothers and sisters within the same organization.
Afterwards there will be a faction that would see membership advangtages for
changing the name from Fraternity to Society. We already changed what the
founder said, and reduced the history in the pledge manual to something that
looks more like a bump in the road.
The female undergraduate membership has increase over the male undergraduate
population, to the point to where if the females desire that we become a
coed sorority, with the growing homosexual male contigency, more than likely
it will become one. What keeps most of our heritage in tack are the female
membership that votes not to change what they joined. Yea! for those unsung
heros.
I've said it many of times. When it comes to history and other tradition,
somethings should never be changed. Because that's why this organization
exist. If you love this organization, you wouldn't want to change what you
love. Like I wouldn't want to change my wife into something she is not.
jesse
