[15337] in APO-L
Re: As an Eagle must fly, so must we.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oz, the Great and Terrible,)
Thu Nov 7 18:13:09 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 18:11:31 -0500
Reply-To: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: "Oz, the Great and Terrible," <gt6978b@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
{First a little rant.
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8) }
Bravely and without thought to personal injury, Bill Smith said:
> There are good reasons why all male chapters shouldn't go be
> forced to go co-ed.
[snip]
> at my school, we also have Gamma Sigma Sigma, a National
> Service Sorority. Should our APO chapter be forced to go co-ed, it would
> in turn probably kill GSS as most if not all would come to us.
> There might not seem to be a problem here as some of you may say, why
> not pledge both. Here's the rationale for that. What has happened on
> several campuses is that both organizations exist, but share many of
> their members(ie. a person is both a brother & sister). At Drexel
> however, the poll of potential students is relatively small in
> comparison to where this occurs. Furthermore, Drexel is 70% male. The
> 30% female range either don't join a sorority or join a social one if one
> at all. Very few join GSS. What I and many of the brothers at my
> chapter believe would happen is that our going co-ed would lead to a time
> when with our resources & connections, we would better suit the needs of
> just enough females as to make it very difficult for Gamma Sigma Sigma to
> remain service oriented and possibly force them to turn social, which
> they don't want. What could also happen is that GSS would go co-ed and
> likewise offer a better organization to join so that APO folds.
Georgia Tech has a male/female ratio that parallels Drexel. Tech also has
a chapter of OPA (a service sorority). Gamma Zeta's going co-ed has not
caused either service organization to become defunct. While most of the
brothers in our chapter would prefer if more females pledged, GZ's ratio
is almost exactly the same that for Tech as a whole.
> In short our going co-ed, would
> eventually lead to the demis of GSS or APO(which would probably be
> re-chartered eventually) or both(with APO returning eventually). In any
> case, why should another organization's status be put in jeopardy when
> all can be avoided by keeping us as we are now.
Again, as a brother of a chapter which seems to be in a similiar
situation, the problem which you fear has not come to pass.
As it stands, there are
> roughly 30 all-male chapters, accounting for 5% if that of the whole
> fraternity. Why not just leave those chapters alone?
Because it is APO's mission as an open fraternity to encourage the
development of Leadership, Friendship, and Service to ALL people in
college, not just those of one gender.
YiLFS,
Charlie Smith
Pledge Trainer and Parlimentarian
Gamma Zeta
Georgia Institute of Technology
--
"[The] whole struggle in this country to give equal rights and equal
privileges to all citizens of the United States has been an unpopular one;
that we have been forced to struggle against passions and prejudices
engendered by generations of wrong and oppression."
Sen. Henry Wilson (R) c.1868
