[16325] in APO-L
Re: Question about Post-chartering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liston Bias)
Mon Mar 3 09:49:46 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:43:48 -0500
Reply-To: Liston Bias <bias@pobox.com>
From: Liston Bias <bias@pobox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199703031424.JAA15541@blackbox.icgroup.com>
In regard to Howard's question about Petitioning Group President's going
inactive, I do not know if this a trend or not. I would be curious to see
how many Chapter President's continue their activity after their term(s)
as President. I think we would see similar numbers.
Having been a part of the interest group/petitioning group/recharting
process, I would suspect the trend (if any) if a result of new brothers
not having the same values. This is surely a problem in any chapter, but
may be of particular importance when starting a chapter from scratch.
Petitioning Group leaders usually have ideas on how they would see the
chapter operate and, as we all know, chapters vary greatly. When you
start adding the variability of new members those ideals may fall to the
majority who feels differently. This can be very frustrating.
From personal experience, I had ideas on how I would like a chapter to
operate with a service emphasize. I kept an open mind to other opinions,
but was particularly adament about having an objective pledging system. I
know this is different from other chapters and could be different at our
chapter. If our chapter had implemented a subjective pledge system and
starting voting people in & out based on their displaying the "spirit of
the principles" I would have surely gotten very frustrated and soon their
after left.
- Liston
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On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Howard P. Wolf wrote:
>
> My questions: Is this a common phenomenon???
> If so, WHY??? (while I have my own thoughts, I'm curious about
> what others think)
> What can be done in an attempt to prevent this???
