[15527] in APO-L
Re: All-male chapters: summary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William B. Rugh)
Tue Nov 12 22:41:23 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 22:39:14 -0500
Reply-To: "William B. Rugh" <wbrugh@BRIGHT.NET>
From: "William B. Rugh" <wbrugh@BRIGHT.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
> Lee Correll wrote:
>
> ...
>
> #2. The "Gentlemen's Agreement" in 1976 was not written down to the best
> of my knowledge; there seems to be no written record of the agreement. I
> have heard individuals say that it passed in the form of a resolution; the
> T&T record of the convention actions does not sustain that statement. As
> the National Office no longer has offical minutes of that Convention, any
> documentation which could be produced would be subject to scrutiny as it
> would serve as a precedent which could then be addressed.
If you read my post of Monday, I quoted T&T:
"Nothing in the National By-Laws or Articles of Incorporation shall be
construed to require any chapter to accept any student as a pledge or
active member of its chapter." (T&T, Vol 52, No 3, pg 8)
Please note that this page was a list of RESOLUTIONS PASSED at the
Convention. Note that there was no time limit set at that time - nor
was one discussed on the floor (individuals may have talked about a time
limit privately however). Certainly the all-male chapters were given to
understand there was no time limit (all part of the quid pro ...).
Just trying to keep to keep the facts straight.
Bill Rugh
