[9720] in APO-L
Re: Comments on Pledge stds by a SC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale I. Newfield)
Tue Oct 11 16:02:22 1994
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 15:52:09 -0400
Reply-To: "Dale I. Newfield" <dn1l+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
From: "Dale I. Newfield" <dn1l+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Added.MiaWz_G00Udd1U7E5Y@andrew.cmu.edu>
Excerpts from internet.aphio: 10-Oct-94 Comments on Pledge stds by .. by
"James C. Porter"@AOL.CO
> I don't think that anybody would deny a chapter the right to vote on their
> own members. Section 19 of the standards includes "objective
> determinations" which can mean something like a simple majority vote.
> Black-balling referred to in this section is a reference to a practice of
> having a vote using white and black balls where a single black ball veto'd
> the whole process. Nobody I know of would approve of this action.
Unfortunately, one definition of blackball throws a big portion of this
argument out the window. One definition is to vote agains the admission
of an applicant to an organization, and given that definition, it is
then not
allowable to vote against a pledge. So effectively you can have an
objective requirement that is that the pledge has to recieve 2/3 vote of
the chapter, but the brothers are not allowed to vote negatively.
Word blackball (BLAK'bawl') n.
Definition --n. 1. A small black ball used as a negative ballot. 2. A
negative vote that blocks the admission of an applicant to an
organization. --tr.v. -balled, -balling, -balls. 1. To vote
against, esp. to veto the admission of. 2. To exclude from a
social group.
blackballer --n.
I do not agree with the interpretation that I just presented, I just
figured that it should be explained, so that people could think about it.
-Dale
