[15631] in APO-L
Title IX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Stockdale)
Fri Nov 15 16:51:40 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:50:02 CST
Reply-To: Chris Stockdale <stockdal@PHYAST.NHN.OU.EDU>
From: Chris Stockdale <stockdal@PHYAST.NHN.OU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hi,
It has been a long time since I wrote to APO-L and have been
guilty of deleting many messages after reading the subject line
when I come in to school and find 40 or 50 new messages delivered
in a 24 hour period. But on the question of Title IX and its
relevance to APO, I believe the national fraternity has a quite capable
and competent National Board, some of whom are lawyers I believe, not
to mention a desginated legal counsel. And if they believed APO
to be in immediate danger of being sued and found in violation of the
law as pertains to the membership policies of its chapters, they would
act accordingly and make recomendations for change to the National Convention.
And to further a point that I know is old, the National Convention of
1976 made a promise to its chapters to allow the fraternity to go co-ed.
And I think it would set a grave precedent to all brothers of the fraternity
to go back on OUR promise. I personally believe that a chapter being
single-sexed by choice hurts their ability to have a full service program,
but that is based on my experience in 2 co-ed chapters, having never
visited anything else. I think the brothers of this fraternity need to
remember a lesson I learned in high school civics concerning government,
majority rule with minority rights. We can not operate on the policy
that if it is good for majority, but disasterous for a few, then we should
do it. I begin to rant, so I'll end.
Yours in brotherhood,
Chris Stockdale
Alpha Phi / Delta Beta
Section 32 Staff
