[17735] in APO-L
Re: A-Phi-Q chapters- 2 questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Webster)
Sun Nov 23 21:07:04 1997
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 02:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: Bret Webster <webster@BOISDARC.TAMU-COMMERCE.EDU>
From: Bret Webster <webster@BOISDARC.TAMU-COMMERCE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
Hello brothers,
I just have a couple of questions for my own couriosity.
1. Is it not against our national by-laws to have rituals not prescribed by
the national by-laws ????
2. Why do Q chapters feel a necessity to differientiate themselves by
calling it A-phi-Q ????
Thanks in advance for any insight you can share.
In LFS
Bret Webster
Beta Delta
At-L
>>
>> On Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1997, Jeremy Licata wrote:
>>
>> >Why do the A-Phi-Q chapters consider themselves a distinct part of the frat-
>> >ernity?
>>
>> That's a VERY good question, Jeremy, and I have an answer. Because IMHO,
it is because we have traditions, rituals, and events (and even service
projects to some extent) unique to the mainstream of Alpha Phi Omega. We
are proud of who we are, we just express ourselves a little differently than
the norm. Yes, we do tend to hold the all-male tradition near and dear, but
frankly, we like it that way. We hold the fact that we was founded by the
Boy Scouts very sacred. We don't reveal all the details about our
fraternity. We like to keep some stuff "secret". We do mention that we are
co-ed, and we are not ashamed of that, but the chapters do not wish to
become co-ed because Black campus culture dictates that fraternities are for
men and sororities are for women, period, end of discussion. Only 2 A-Phi-Q
chapters are co-ed (Alpha Epsilon--Louisiana State and Chi Upsilon--Dillard
U., Dillard being co-ed by accident).
>>
