Status of all-male chapters

[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.

Originally Posted by 33girl

This paragraph is really stupid. It should have said...

"Alpha Delta was formerly a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity. They left the national because they did not agree with the decision to compel all-male chapters to initiate female members."

"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.

It's not a "name change" - that makes it sound like they are still part of APO, they just don't want to call themselves that.

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

It has nothing to do with being "adult-based" or adults running it.

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've seen a lot of dumb explanations of chapter breakaways/closings, but this is in the top 5.

I still don't understand why you feel these explanations are dumb. Also, what are the other 4 reasons on that top 5 list?