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Originally Posted by naraht
For those of us who didn't attend convention, can we get a *tiny* bit of explanation?
Randy
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Nothing has changed since the 2006 National Convention.
Here is the text off the committee's recommendation, though it was not an action item submitted to the convention for adoption (btw, I apologize for any errors - I retyped this pretty quickly.)
"After consulting with directors of regions with noncompliant chapters, but especially that of Region IV, V, and VII, it has come to our attention that the noncompliance of chapters previously identified as having resist transition efforts is not solely due to a desire to rebel against integration. For example, some chapters identified hve fallen victim to the "Two-Year Clock" rule, with a lack of female recruitment being a result of absence of any recruitment whatsoever. However, many chapters identified as being resistant to compliance are under administrative scrutiny from their respective sectional and regional chairs due to a lack of communication with the fraternity's representatives on a national level.
We have concluded that open membership in uncooperative chapters should not require further action at a national convention. A deadline was for compliance set at the 2006 National Convention and regional and sectional staff should maintain current enforcement efforts. Cooperative chapters countinue to work with regional and sectional staff, and noncompliant chapters are tending towards ceasing communication and dissociating from the national organization. Open lines of communication should be maintained between chapters and fraternity staff, and chapters should demonstrate good-faith efforts at complying with open membership. For thsoe chapters not communicating with the fraternity or not complying with established policies on open membership, standards that have been set for any breach with national bylaws should be applied and appropriate action should be taken."
In short, chapters that are attempting to make the good-faith, demonstrable effort (as required by the Board's 2006 resolution) should continue to make those efforts (and, I can assure you, this is what is happening in some of those chapters.)
Chapters which choose not to comply, and therefore do not make a good faith demonstrable effort, and which have not dissociated from Alpha Phi Omega, remain under the jurisdiction of Alpha Phi Omega, and will be treated as being non-compliant.
Nothing in the committee's recommendation has changed the status of how the Board is currently handling the question of open membership.
Fraternally,
Mark