Declared inactive (Feb 2009)

[AndrewPiChi]

Frank Reed Horton wanted to find a fraternity to help keep young men out of trouble by placing before them a standard of manhood that would withstand the test of time. How do we know this? He wrote it down.

Unfortunatly, over the decades since 1976 the majority of Alpha Phi Omega Nationally is female. Does this have an impact on what the fraternity was intended to be? Yes. Do coed chapters and all male chapters operate differently? Yes.

The Nature of the fraternity has changed with this occuring and the reasons for why it was founded have been ignored to higlight the interpretation of what it is now, some say this is for the best, others say for the worst.

Now, a peaceful coexistance was preferable. Let each man rep his fraternity his own way, let chapters determine their own members, let the gentlemans agreement exist and let people stop complaining about it, let us all get along and stop wasting so much time and energy fighting on the issue and lets be about service and allow the fraternity to thrive and grow. However, due to the events of the 2006 National Convention, a few hard working and committed chapters were forced one way or the other. "Our way or the highway". Many did not ask how all male chapters felt on the subject.

Many forget and fail to understand that it wasn't that All Male Chapters were simply All Male by practice over the years. Many of us could have gone to go coed at any time. It was that we activly CHOOSE to be all male and fought for the right to do so constantly. The local option was in place so chapters would have the authority to decide what was best for them and keep chapters from leaving, by way allowing chapters the right to determine their own members. There is nothing wrong with that! With the national fraternity forcing its hand on this, it broke a long standing promiss to them.