[13034] in APO-L
Authenticating Brothers (and students)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Finder)
Fri Oct 20 12:50:01 1995
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:47:36 -0400
Reply-To: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
From: Randy Finder <naraht@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
I think the original idea was more like signs and such that the Masons
and some of the Social Greeks have. (Something like if someone scratches
their nose and then their left shoulder, you scratch the back of your head.)
I would expect giving name, school inititated at and about what year
would be more than enough for the National Office to say yes or no.
While our pledge manual is a public document, a couple of questions from
it should at least help with ID. (Tree, Bird, Jewel,etc.) And jsut asking
for the school and its chapter name together should be an additional help.
(While the list of all schools who have had charters is not all that
easily available, it is primarily becuase there has been no demand. [I'd
imagine if brothers started asking for it more than once a week, it would
probably go on the order form])
I do like the idea of nonsense questions...
However the fact is that if someone put a LOT of effort into faking
being a brother, they probably could pull it off. If a Petitioning group
can pull off ordering (and receiving Ritual Books) nothing is impossible.
One of the chapters in my section had a similar problem with someone who
said they wanted to pledge. Eventually they found out he wasn't a student
and had tried to pass himself off as a student before.
YiLFS
Randy Finder
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Leadership, Friendship and Service - Alpha Phi Omega
