[13085] in APO-L
Re: By-Law suggestions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey N Woodford)
Fri Oct 27 00:47:56 1995
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 23:46:27 -0500
Reply-To: Jeffrey N Woodford <jwoodfor@UNLGRAD1.UNL.EDU>
From: Jeffrey N Woodford <jwoodfor@UNLGRAD1.UNL.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <9510260459.AA28305@unlgrad1.unl.edu> from "Liston Bias" at Oct
25, 95 11:51:31 pm
> Oklahoma State University Petitioning Group (soon to be Theta Sigma
> chapter) worked out some final glitches in By-Laws tonight and decided on
> the following highlights: Any thought?
>
> 1) Following the discussion of APO-L we require all members to check
> their e-mail at least once a week.
Like Brother Brady said, I don't know how you'd enforce this. You can
encourage, you can plead and beg, but I don't think it's a good idea
to _require_. In any case, once people figure out how useful it is,
you won't need to require it.
> 2) We created an officer position called the "Webmaster" who will be in
> charge of updating the homepage with calendar of events & other information.
It sounds like this officer wouldn't be doing very much. Maybe make
this part of a more-general Public Relations/Corresponding
Secretary-type office?
If you want to maximize your officer count, then that's fine, but I
personally see no need for more officers than absolutely needed.
> 3) President, VP Service, and VP Fellowship all serve a year term from
> January to January to provide some continuity. All other positions are
> elected on a semester basis.
This creates the impression that the President, VP Service, and VP
Fellowship are more important than the other offices. This may not be
bad, just pointing it out.
> 4) VP Membership also serves as Pledgetrainer elect. After they plan
> rush and get a pulse on current membership they train the new.
Yeah this seems a bit weighty for one office, but then again my
opinion isn't all that informed.
> 5) We vote pledges in, but not out. We set up a criteria by which pledges
> are objectively guaranteed admission to brotherhood. If they come close
> to this criteria, but have extenuating circumstances, we can still vote
> them in if the meet a minimum criteria to attend FPR.
I will have to plead the Fifth as well. :-) (Maybe not space shuttle
flames, but certainly forest-fire sized.) But just as a question,
what about the situation where you have a pledge who has disgraced or
otherwise dishonored the Fraternity? Maybe having some mechanism for
removing a pledge in extreme situations would not be a bad idea.
Well here's some input for ya!
-Jeff
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Jeffrey N. Woodford | Alumnus, Kappa Chapter, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
jwoodfor@unlgrad1.unl.edu | Brother, Alpha Sigma Chapter, Univ. of NE-Lincoln
Physical Chemistry Graduate TA...er, Slave...no, Student, yeah, that's it
