[9664] in APO-L
Sub/Ob-jective Pledge Standards...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn BB Hillis)
Thu Oct 6 00:44:09 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 20:45:34 -0400
Reply-To: Shawn BB Hillis <ind00471@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
From: Shawn BB Hillis <ind00471@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
-- My apologies to those not following this thread...
Okay. Four Brothers responded to my "Who, why, when..." posting
and I got, surprise :-O, four different responses. The question, for
those not up-to-date, was "Where did the 'idea' of it being 'illegal' to
have any subjective pledging Standards come from?"
One answer was it was a requirement from some schools (those that
require open memberships) and that if your school did not have that
policy, then it didn't apply.
A second answer was that it came from some 'higher-up' APO
'official(s)'.
A third answer was that a chapter COULD have a subjective
standard, but it had to be stated in the program.
And the last answer was that it was against National Policy (re:
National Pledging Standards) to have anything but objective standards.
So, which is it? Four people (minimum of which 3 have been/are on
Sectional Staff or higher) gave four DIFFERENT answers. Now, I really don't
believe any of them are in a position to give a definitive answer and,
unfortunately, they ALL responded privately so I can't seem to get THEM
debating this issue amongst themselves.
Perhaps I am making a mistake trying to force this issue and get
an answer. Perhaps it IS a quasi National Policy, but there to protect
Nationals and let the chapters, for the most part, be. Perhaps by
forcing it, an increase in enforcement will result which is contrary to
my desires. But I can't abide that some chapters are potentially being
forced to follow this 'policy' when/if it's not required. And I WILL NOT
stand aside to let others increase the strictness and expanse of this
'policy'.
Oh, and if this issue is not a concern to most Brothers on this
list, then I will bow my head and stop making such a big deal of it and
wasting a lot of time and space.
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--Shawn M. Hillis | "Knowledge is power, but |
Univ. of Central Florida | attitude is invincibility" |
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