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Originally posted by polarpink
Hmm, I think it is kind of funny that so many people on this board have a huge problem with the way social fraternities at Rowan are represented yet the actual social fraternity members at Rowan don't really care and elected Jackiepie anyway.
I think it is just another example of how each campus has such a different personality and culture.
I like hearing the difference in opinion, but I disagree with what rocketgirl said.
I don't think that I would have any right, even as a member of Alpha Phi Omega, to tell Jackiepie that her chapter should push to be accepted (probably meaning categorized though) as a service group.
Maybe that chapter is more similar to a social fraternity than a Circle K for example. If it were my chapter, I would take offense to rocketgirl's suggestion because I would know what my chapter dynamic is better than an outsider would.
I think one of the benefits of a PHA or IFC type organization is that it provides a forum for like-organizations to interact. It seems exclusionary for someone who doesn't even belong to that campus to make as assessment of who should and shouldn't belong.
Each chapter of Alpha Phi Omega has its own personality. If they want to be viewed in the same light as social fraternities, so be it. It is not my place to tell ANY chapter how to be classified or how to govern itself, especially if they have their act together.
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I am not trying to tell them how to govern themselves or how to act...but I am saying that APO as a whole from every member I've ever met and from the way they were on my campus is service first. My other concern is that if they are meeting this basic principle, then they are nothing like the socials they are on the council they are on by pure definition and national bylaws. Obviously it would be hard to exist on a council of people with completely different operation procedures than your own. It would be even harder to govern that council.
Nobody is saying that all APO chapters are the same...just like nobody thinks that all social greek chapters are the same. But all chapters should be following the same set of guidelines nationally that govern what they do and how they exist in an operational sense.