Moving a charter.

[naraht]

While I know it is somewhat common in other Fraternities/Sororities. It appears that Alpha Phi Omega will be moving a charter for the first time in more than 85 years. This move would be of Beta Gamma chapter at Central YMCA College in Chicago to Roosevelt University, also in Chicago. Roosevelt University was formed when after the board of trustees attempted to re-institute racial and religious quotas after WWII. The President of Central YMCA, almost all of the faculty and almost all of the students at Central YMCA College walked away and formed a new college which came to be known as Roosevelt University. Central YMCA more or less died at that point, though the YMCA did attempt to bring it back later as a community college.

While I don't deny that an Alpha Phi Omega chapter would be welcome at Roosevelt University, I'm sort of torn over the move of the charter.

Alpha Phi Omega has had an apparent charter move in the past, but in that case, the school with the charter was bought by the state and used as a campus of the new school. (Shurtleff College -> Southern Illinois University Edwardsville).

I *think* that theoretically, I could object based on the National bylaws, but I'd be going up against the board member for that area of the country...

Ideas?