[13141] in APO-L
Re: Initiation Oath for Pledges?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deborah Nina Cherry)
Wed Nov 1 15:27:02 1995
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:01:53 -0500
Reply-To: Deborah Nina Cherry <dc30+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
From: Deborah Nina Cherry <dc30+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Added.kkZwSmW00UdaJAzk48@andrew.cmu.edu>
From the 1993 Pledge Manual, "National Pledging Standards" (but I'm sure
it's still there now):
16. The Oath of Loyalty and Service. An appropriate period of pledging
includes the presentation and explanation of the Oath of Loyalty and
Service to the pledges by the officers supervising the pledge class.
Rationale: A presentation and explanation is needed to assist the pledges
in fully understanding the commitments they will make to Alpha Phi Omega
when they are initiated.
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Some chapters wait until Initiation bids are given out and then tell
those who've accepted the Oath they will have to take. More time for
explanation earlier on would be better though (as this indicates), so
that people know what they are getting in to (not that most people would
have a problem with the actual Oath, but they shouldn't feel like it was
just dropped on them and they have no choice).
Certainly no pledge or initiate should be forced to take an Oath during
a ceremony that they have not heard before.
Yours in LFS,
Debbie Cherry
Life Member, Kappa Chapter, Carnegie Mellon University
Section 62 Staff
INTERNET or BITNET: dc30@andrew.cmu.edu
