[17862] in APO-L
Re: Alum
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Busby)
Fri Dec 5 15:33:58 1997
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:32:49 -0600
Reply-To: "J. Busby" <jcb2181@TEXASONLINE.NET>
From: "J. Busby" <jcb2181@TEXASONLINE.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
It's been a while since I posted anything on the list, but things are
starting to get into a category I have some experience in.
As a past Region VII Alumni voting Delegate I'll tell you that at Dallas
1994 I spent part of the legislative session doing work in our company's
Dallas office because I persoanlly felt it was up to the undergraduates to
decide most of the issues. However, I was present to vote on all the
matters which involved alumni.
It is an interesting dilema.
If you take away the alumni votes then you have a situation where you have a
body imposing rules upon a group which has no voting representation. If you
give the alumni votes then you have non-participants voting on matters that
they are no longer involved in. Seems to me we should leave it like it is
and hope even tempered, fair minded alumni voting delegates are selected.
From past convention experience, (2 of them to be exact and voting delegate
at both and committee experience at one) it seems the non-undergraduate
voting delegates only swayed the other delegate in matters that were wholly
related to alumni. In those instances it -=felt=- like the rest of the
convention looked in our direction before casting their votes, but on the
other issues we were just present. On some of the more pointed issues we
made "war story" comments to eachother about amendments which have been
brought up at every convention, and of course we swapped jokes about
Wilfred.
-James Busby
Alumnus Xi Delta Chapter
Texas A&M University
Currently an APO nobody!
Ellen K Wrote:
>Just one more rambling on the subject of alumni & voting:
>There is a truism that alumni don't vote on most issues. This isn't a
reason
>for or against giving alumni votes at the convention. It's also not true,
>while many alumni delegates have chosen to only vote on alumni issues, many
>others have taken the attitude that the reason the convention gave them
>voting privileges is for them to exercise them and they do so on every
vote.
