[16383] in APO-L
Problems with other bros.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Cyclone)
Fri Mar 7 13:31:16 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 13:29:44 -0500
Reply-To: The Cyclone <gt0622a@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
From: The Cyclone <gt0622a@PRISM.GATECH.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199703050338.WAA06064@anvil.gatech.edu> from "Jason Jones" at
Mar 4, 97 10:24:56 pm
OK, I know I just posted something in response to someone wanting to leave
the chapter, but something happened last night that really scared me, and
it makes me almost want to leave my chapter. I worked at the Food Bank
last night with 3 brothers in the chapter. After finishing the work,
the people there let you have snacks and juice. Well, the juice I
drank I ended up choking on and I didn't just cough a few times, I almost
died! Only one of the other brothers there even did anything to help me.
The other two didn't do anything and I think they even made fun of me
after I started hyper-ventilating. I could've died and it seems that
noone would've tried to save me. Now, maybe they didn't know what to
do. I wasn't able to talk and tell them what was wrong until after
most of the coughing and hyper-ventilation was gone and I was starting
to recover. However, I've had a lot of problems with those brothers (or
at least the two of them) ignoring me a lot of the time.
And these are not the only brothers I have problems with. It seems there
are several brothers that don't seem to want to hang around me and don't
seem to ever listen to what I have to say. And I can't just avoid them
all. Some of them are officers and show up to almost every activity.
However, I can't leave my chapter because I'm an officer and though some
brothers don't seem to want to be my friends, others are good friends and
I would really be letting them down if I went inactive. I'm going to try
to talk to some of the brothers and see what I can do. Maybe they don't
even realize they are doing this to me. I am a bit shy and perhaps people
think I'm boring to hang around since they never take the chance to really
get to know me. Perhaps this happens to other inactive brothers also.
And maybe that's part of the reason we can't keep people active very
easily. So I guess this is sort of a warning to some chapters as well as
a plea for help. I'm not too sure how to handle this and I want to do the
right thing, so if anyone has suggestions, please lmk.
(if anyone in my chapter reads this, I think we have some talking to
do...)
Thanks,
-Martin
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