[17997] in APO-L
Re: Encouraging Membership Diversity, a positive spin.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Aubertine)
Mon Dec 15 22:02:35 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:00:45 -0500
Reply-To: Dan Aubertine <dba@PO.CWRU.EDU>
From: Dan Aubertine <dba@PO.CWRU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199712160240.VAA15698@cornelius.INS.CWRU.Edu>
In response to Dan Roberts post:
OK, so our chapter is thinking about next semester's Rush program and
we're conscience of the fact that we've had a more diverse membership in
the past than we have right now. We want to address this without doing
anything that feels artificial. Lots of chapters must have dealt with this
sort of thing before... does anyone have suggestions?
In leadership, friendship, and service,
Dan Aubertine
President -- Theta Upsilon Chapter
Case Western Reserve University
At 08:15 PM 12/15/97 -0500, Dan Roberts wrote:
>Given the Following:
>
>1) You are a member of a chapter that is all male, all white, all female,
>all black, all former scouts, all non-scouts, or whatever.
>
>2) The University your chapter is at is not any of the above things.
>
>3) You want to encourage greater diversity in your membership. How do you
>encourage this in a positive manner.
>
>
>I have seen this situation in a number of chapters where the then current
>membership would like to promote diversity but is a loss at how to make the
>chapter a more inviting place for potential members who may feel
>uncomfortable being the only female, black, male, black, non-scout, scout,
>or not-whatever at their first chapter meeting.
>
>Dan
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>Daniel Roberts
> Columbus Ohio
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>All Around Has Been Central Ohio Alumni Association
>My comments are not an official position of anybody but me
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