[15400] in APO-L
Re: membership idea
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Touched By The Sun)
Sat Nov 9 04:57:18 1996
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 04:55:38 -0500
Reply-To: Touched By The Sun <henrymrx@wam.umd.edu>
From: Touched By The Sun <henrymrx@wam.umd.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199611090322.WAA01821@po1.wam.umd.edu>
I do not think that Alpha Phi Omega should impose any sort of academic
minimum on a national level. That is something that should be handled by
individual chapters. If this is a problem in your chapter, handle it
there.
Remember, different schools have different GPA requirements for
"satisfatory progress" and some do not use a 4.0 scale, so an
across-the-board standard isn't practical.
Our current By-Laws state that we are open to "all students". This isn't
a proposal for the current convention, so this would have to be changed in
1998. If you wanted to add that students must not be on any kind of
"academic probation", or whatever, that could be done.
And it would be totally unenforceable. Staff people just do not have
time to that check up on the academic progress of each and every member of
each and every chapter in their section. As well as finding out what the
individual institution's rules are, etc. See what a mess this would be?
However, let me be clear that I fully support each chapter's individual
right to set whatever academic standards it feels are appropriate. Just
leave the national fraternity out of the question.
) / /-- /| / /-\ \ / (301) 982-6432 Pager: (301) 732-9752
/--/ /-- / | / /--/ / Brother of all trades University of Maryland
/ ( /-- / |/ / \ / "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet renounce controversy are people
who want crops without ploughing the ground." - Frederick Douglass
