[9590] in APO-L
A note about changing the Toast Song...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Loren Finkelstein)
Mon Oct 3 13:39:49 1994
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 13:37:49 -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>
It has come to my attention that some people are against changing the Toast
Song because they just don't think we chould change "our history" for any
reason.
I would like to point out that The toast song has been changed in the past.
So has the pledge manual, and the Alpha Phi Omega National By-Laws. In
fact, even the rituals have changed, numerous times, at National
conventions. These things are much more a part of who we are than the
toast song. While there is usually discussion about any change to the
ritual, I don't recall there being any arguments that the ritual should not
be changed because it is history.
So, if it's O.K. to change the ritual, why do people have such a problem
changing the toast song? Is it just that you did not know the ritual was
ever changed, so now you are going to fight all changes in it? Lots of
changes are good things.
I don't want to mention specific things about the ritual, because this is a
public list, but I don't think I am giving away too much with the following
example. (God help me and the flames I might generate)
At one point one ritual was changed to allow for brothers of other
nationalities. They are given an opportunity to contemplate their own
country, instead of the U.S. (Is that vague enough?)
If we can change the ritual without starting world war 3, then why not the
toast song?
--
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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