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Originally Posted by jeremypichi
I'm going to break down this pretty much line by line since you obviously don't understand what its like to be in an all-male chapter.
"Compel all-male chapters to initiate female members" is nothing more than a nice way of saying "a promise given to all-male chapters 30 years ago was broken and now they have to go co-ed or have their charters revoked."
The paragraph in the article said exactly what it should have, that a chapter left because they didn't agree with the way the Fraternity is heading. If you couldn't tell this goes way past the whole forcing us to go co-ed thing.
How is this not a name change and how does it make it sound like they're still a part of A Phi O? They are now Alpha Delta, not Sigma Xi chapter of Alpha Phi Omega which was stated quite clearly in the article. I'm going to assume that they are following a new set of bylaws and rituals.
new bylaws + new rituals + new letters = they are not a part of Alpha Phi Omega
Are you sure? It seems like those are a couple of the reasons they left. Also, you didn't disagree with their statement that Alpha Phi Omega is becoming adult-based, so maybe there is truth to it.
I still don't understand why you feel these explanations are dumb. Also, what are the other 4 reasons on that top 5 list?
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Man, this must be my week for pissing off Duq people.
In answer to your last question, the other 4 didn't necessarily have to do w/ APO, so it's irrelevant to the discussion.
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my opinion, a "name change" sounds like something that is cosmetic only, not actually breaking away from the fraternity. It said not a thing about new rituals or new bylaws. As a matter of fact, it said "Alpha Delta has been part of the Bananas tradition since 1965." That's absolutely false. Alpha Delta as an entity didn't EXIST in 1965, so how could they have been part of the tradition?? That's what I'm talking about.
I'm not railing against all male chapters, I'm railing against a poorly written newspaper article that if a nongreek read it, they would get the wrong impression of what happened.
Here's another example.
Oh and I don't agree with the "adult based" statement either, if as others have stated, the choice to make the all male chapters go coed or leave was voted on by the collegiate membership.