[17998] in APO-L
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pepsi)
Mon Dec 15 22:16:18 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 22:05:38 -0500
Reply-To: Pepsi <pepsi@OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Pepsi <pepsi@OLIVIER.PC.CS.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199712160103.UAA30823@olivier.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
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> And if you think all chapters are the same, you're decieving yourself.
> Being All-Male is obviously not essential for your chapter, and more power
> to you. On the other hand, it IS absolutly essential for us.
I'm curious as to why it is viewed as essential in an
intellectual and not flame type of way. This whole thing
reminded me of one of Harry Chapin's songs. It is called
"Flowers are Red." The first stanza is sung, "The little
boy went first day of school. He got some crayons and started
to draw. He put colors all over the paper. For colors was what
he saw. And the teacher said.."What you doin' young man?"
I'm painting flowers, he said. She said, 'It's not time
for art young man...And anyways flowers are green and red
..There's a time for everything young man, and a way it should
be done, You've got to show concern for everyone else...for you're
not the only one. And she said....Flowers are red young man.
Green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any
other way than the way they always have been seen. But the little
boy said...There are so many colors in the rainbow, so many
colors in the morning sun. So many colors in the flowers, and
I see every one." Finally, he was brainwashed into that belief.
He moved to another town, and went to another school. And he
had a teacher who believed in creativity. The poor boy, who had
lost the ability to think for himself. I think the bigger
questions in my mind about the Chapin song are why flowers
have always been seen as red and green. Likewise, in
APO, why are some chapters better off male? -Joy
> -Delta 1159
> Mark L.
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