[17622] in APO-L
APO Rights and Rumination
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Licata)
Wed Nov 19 11:20:35 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:19:34 PST
Reply-To: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus@HOTMAIL.COM>
From: Jeremy Licata <dcnblus@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
The questions posed in the original "APO DISCRIMINATION" posting were
intended as more rhetorical questions, to ponder and RUMINATE (Thx Nic).
Perhaps they can all be answered by the Committee (don't know its
official title, but...) in the coming year...
Many conversations with different brothers (from different universities,
traditions, backgrounds, &c) have helped me to understand Delta's
chapter situation and to recognize that there are similar situations
with other service fraternities (notably, Gamma Sigma Sigma) at other
Universities. Boston Nationals helped me understand the majority of the
discrimination issues involved within the Fraternity. (I only wish I had
been able to followup in Dallas and Phoenix)
But I am of the same opinion as our Immediate Past National President:
"I defend the right (not necessarily the righteousness) of private,
voluntary organizations to determine their own membership."
Where does the Organisation start and the chapter begin? Does this
line permit some chapters do discriminate and forces others not to? May
each chapter have its own membership policy which may be enforced above,
beyond, and contrary to the National Membership Policy? What criteria
are involved that allow a chapter to have rules contrary to National
Policy?
What --
Right? Responsibility? Duty? Charge? Order? Dictate? Mandate? Options?
-- do we have, as a member of the Fraternity?
Lot's of questions, few answers...
:jeremy (AKA Tanner)
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