[9698] in APO-L
Re: Fit to be a brother...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Liston Bias (407) 273-3516)
Fri Oct 7 13:49:43 1994
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 13:22:55 EST
Reply-To: "David Liston Bias (407) 273-3516" <BIASD@MAIL.FIRN.EDU>
From: "David Liston Bias (407) 273-3516" <BIASD@MAIL.FIRN.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
I like your example regarding pledges as similar to people trying to defend
a thesis. And I agree that there can be alot of subjectivity in college
grading (including thesis defense). I, however, don't think it is
completely subjective. I believe most departments (I know mine does) has a
checklist of sorts for what exactly needs to be done in order to meet the
requirements of completing a thesis...
The main difference, however, that I find between pledging and going for
your PH.D. is ability. I don't think getting a PH.D. is for everyone in
the sense that not everyone has a the ability to learn enough in every
field to get PhD's. By the way, I am working on my PH.D. in Industrial
Engineering.
I do believe that Alpha Phi Omega is for everyone because I believe
everyone has the capacity to embrace the cardinal principles (leadership,
friendship, service). As such, I believe the pledge program should be a
measure of how dedicated someone is to the principles which I think can be
objective in nature... I may be wrong... and it has been mentioned that I
will get burned one day for having this philosophy but so be it. I believe
that each chapter/school should have its own character and promote its own
agenda.. But, when I hear things on APO-L that say one school has only
excepted 1 of 10 transfer brothers I tend to think we may be too unique
and not collectively stand for the same things that we claim to all
embrace.
Take Care,
Liston "People may doubt what you say,
but they will always believe what you do!"
biasd@mail.firn.edu
Oklahoma State University { Alumni of The Florida State University }
