[9689] in APO-L
Re: Membership Status
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU)
Thu Oct 6 17:52:13 1994
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 17:41:22 -0400
Reply-To: EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU
From: EDK@LASPAU.MHS.HARVARD.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
>Although some of our members and higher ups INSIST on refering to Alpha
Phi >Omega as an undergraduate fraternity, nothing in the national rules
>precludes active membership or pledging by people who are not classified
as
>undergraduates. In fact, it quite gets on my nerves when I hear the
>phrase "undergraduate fraternity". Enough about that.
I don't think it's usually so much a matter of 'insisting' as a matter of
'habit'. At the point when many 'higher ups' got started in APO, it
*was* strictly an undergraduate fraternity. I don't know when that
changed, but in either 1982 or 1984 we were still removing the phrase
"undergraduate chapters" from the bylaws even though graduate students
had be elegible to be pledges and actives for some time.
I've unfortunately picked up the bad habit of saying 'undergraduate
chapters' from hanging around too many old-timers and I need to watch
myself. I know better, the correct term is usually 'active chapters' for
most contexts where I use the phrase, but I still slip.
Y.I.S.
c.c.
Alum
ekranzer@harvard.edu
