[17938] in APO-L
Re: Open Membership Apology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William B. Rugh)
Fri Dec 12 20:12:37 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 19:43:37 -0500
Reply-To: "William B. Rugh" <wbrugh@BRIGHT.NET>
From: "William B. Rugh" <wbrugh@BRIGHT.NET>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
-----Original Message-----
From: John R Hall [SMTP:Jrhmdtraum@AOL.COM]
Sent: Friday, 12 December, 1997 12:43
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L
Subject: Re: Open Membership Apology
The Open membership was made to "represent a cross section of the student
body" Chapters may determine their own membership (ie national cannot tell
them to accept someone) as long as (Policies 3.3): "Chapter membership
requirements may be adopted that are not in conflict with state and local
law, the National Bylaws and Standard Chapter Articles of Association"
Hence, chapters can determine their own membership as long as it is OPEN
and
represents a CROSS SECTION OF THE STUDENT BODY. ie if the student body is
coed, membership must be coed.
This is a false concept! I have given the actual policy wording too many
times to repeat it here. Open membership was NOT passed to represent a
cross-section of the student body. This phase was a terrible thing to
inflict on the By-Laws (which OUGHT to include only those things tha MUST
be done and those that MUST NOT be done). When passed, it was passed as a
statement of philosophy only, and was not to be enforced on any chapter!
Bill Rugh
