[18073] in APO-L
Re: APO/GSS/OPA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pepsi)
Fri Jan 9 20:26:08 1998
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 20:15:00 -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: <199801100025.TAA16391@olivier.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
Personally, I've seen many service
groups peaceably co-exist, even on small
campuses. There are other co-ed service
groups on many campuses, already. They
just often do not use the "fraternity"
label. One that comes to mind that I'm
an alumnus of is Circle K. (Any other
people on here active with more than
one service group in college? Or now?)
The groups could probably teach each other
a few things, and sometimes collaborate on sharing
manpower and resources.
I would have pledged both a female service sorority and
APO if given the opportunity. I didn't have that opportunity
at SUNY Fredonia. It didn't exist. The groups do not have to be in
competition with one another. In fact, I often wished our mostly
female chapter back then had done more work with
the Girl Scouts, or there had been a campus Girl
Scouts. I was a former Girl Scout.
> Brothers", that's fine with them, they have that choice, but I'll bet
that
> there are females on campus who would love to be Brothers, if they found out
> the possibility existed.
>
It all boils down to freedom of choice. I will politely
beg to differ with Jeremy Licata in saying that I don't
think we were ever a completely neutral organization.
We came into existance with ties to the Boy Scouts.
In 1976 some men blessed me with the opportunity to serve
others-male and female, at the college level. I was only
4 then, and didn't even realize what an opportunity I was
given. And I do not have daughters now. If I did, I would like
to think, however, that someday they will grow up
to have more freedom of choice than their mother had.
I don't think it matters who had the idea: us or them.
One is not a substitute for the other. It is not a marriage:
the two do not become one. Rather, it is a proposed
partnership. I think it is a really neat thing. In L, F and S,
Joy Stein
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