[16040] in APO-L
alumni membership definition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gail Anna Rahn)
Fri Jan 17 02:04:34 1997
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 02:01:44 -0500
Reply-To: Gail Anna Rahn <grahn@ENGIN.UMICH.EDU>
From: Gail Anna Rahn <grahn@ENGIN.UMICH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hello everyone,
During an executive board meeting of gamma pi chapter, U of Michigan, we
were debating the definition of alumni membership. According to the
national bylaws (as amended through the 1994 convention, not 1996) alumni
membership is:
Upon leaving their respective chapters without having been
suspended or expelled by chapters or the National Fraternity,
all who have held active, advisory, or honorary membership in a
collegiate chapter shall be recognized as alumni members.
We have a few quandaries:
1. we have in the past extended alumni membership *only* to those
who have gratuated or disenrolled from the university. members who
still attend the university yet are not *active* were not granted
alumni status until they graduated. We thought that while members
had the opportunity to be active and were not, their status should
be inactive and not necessarily commuted to alumni.
i am speaking specifically to the case where a member still attends
the university as an undergraduate, no longer wishes to be an active
(or inactive) part of the fraternity, yet desires the benefits of
alumni membership.
The National Bylaws clearly state "having left the chapter" and
not "having left the institution". Would someone please clarify the
intended meaning and current interpretation of this passage?
2. We are a large chapter and could foresee a rush of long-gone
inactive members desiring to be deemed alumni while still
undergraduates at our school. This would be a great departure
from our current policy. How should we deal witht his change?
3. Are we free to reinterpret (possibly in our bylaws?) the
"Upon leaving their respective chapters" clause to suit the
traditions of our chapter?
3. What is your chapter's policy?
Thanks for examining this issue with me.
YiLFS,
...gail.
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Gail Anna Rahn
grahn@engin.umich.edu
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~grahn
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