[9575] in APO-L
One thing to say on the Toast Song Argument.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Loren Finkelstein)
Mon Oct 3 09:38:36 1994
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 09:37:11 -0400
Reply-To: Loren Finkelstein <loren@PANIX.COM>
From: Loren Finkelstein <loren@PANIX.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Forgetting the whole sex issue...
"True To Alpha Phi Omega" means so much more than "Men of Alpha Phi Omega".
"Men of" simply states that you are a member of the fraternity. "True to"
tells that you have truly devoted yourself to the principles.
I believe that if someone had thought of it way back when, the song would
have originally been "true to."
And, if you are opposed to change on general principle ("It's
Tradition..."), then you had better move to an Amish community. :-)
Or at least stop singing the second verse of the toast song which was not
part of the original. And I am sure we can dig up a list of original
traditions that were dropped, or changed. Sort of like the boy scouts
stopped using the swasticka after the NAZI's adopted it as their symbol.
O.K. Maybe that was 2 things to say. :-)
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Loren Reed Finkelstein ---loren@panix.com---
Be a Leader - Be a Friend - Be of Service ---Alpha Phi Omega---
Give yourself over to Absolute Pleasure --The Rocky Horror Picture Show--
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