[15611] in APO-L
Re: Service Requirement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Del Collo)
Thu Nov 14 13:39:16 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 13:38:32 -0500
Reply-To: Joe Del Collo <joedc@CLEMSON.EDU>
From: Joe Del Collo <joedc@CLEMSON.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199611140257.VAA26203@CLEMSON.EDU>
><bold>I'm not sure I understand how your chapter works its service
requirement,
>but lots of chapters do very different things</bold>. Here at Alpha
Phi Chapter
>at Washington University, we require that a person attend a certain
number
>of hours of service at any combination of different projects. During
the
>entire semester, we send out several hundred projects and accumulate
>usually over 2500 man hours in service from fewer than 100 active
members.
>As I'm interpreting the Gamma Lambda requirement, each person in our
>chapter would have to attend more than 100 different service
projects.
>This comment is intended only to point out the differences in how
chapters
>operate their programs.
>
>In the end, I'm sure both of our chapters' members accrue in excess of
20
>hours. Unfortunately, however, I believe that there are chapters out
>there more apathetic than ours. In an effort to help pull those
chapters
>up towards a higher goal, a national amendment is very reasonable.
>Besides, if a chapter already has that requirement, what does it hurt
to
>make the requirement nation wide? The only thing it does is pushes
>chapters with lower standards to increase their expectations. No
harm
>done...
This is why I think this amendment is not necessary. I think that the
service requirements for each chapter vary because of academic
situations, quarter/semester structure, student population etc. I think
this is something best left to the individual chapters.
Joseph J. Del Collo
Gamma Lambda
"Act or be acted upon" - Stephen R. Covey
