[15614] in APO-L
Service Requirement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oz, the Great and Terrible,)
Thu Nov 14 15:04:18 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:01:04 -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>
Bravely and without thought to personal injury, Paul E Boal said:
> 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.
I resent the implication that those chapters such as Gamma Zeta which
require less than 20 hours are apathetic. The standard course load at
Tech is much greater than that at most other schools. Why can't we best
judge the service requirement for our membership?
> 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...
Except, of course, for the brothers that we lose.
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
