Co-Ed Fraternity needs ideas for new member period

[33girl]

Originally Posted by naraht

Some *large* Alpha Phi Omega chapters have both a pledge mom and a pledge dad in a given semester. All of the chapters I've seen that have that are on pretty liberal campuses and have pledge classes on the high side of 30...

Well, considering that apparently people just signed up and paid their $$ and were automatically members by doing absolutely nothing, I'm hoping to heaven this is NOT Alpha Phi Omega.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, considering that apparently people just signed up and paid their $$ and were automatically members by doing absolutely nothing, I'm hoping to heaven this is NOT Alpha Phi Omega.

*Unless* this is a newly (re)chartered chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, and what she described as happening before is the situation of the Petitioning Group with a Petitioning Group Ceremony at the end of the semester. That is possible, but for an APO chapter to start using pledge mom immediately would be somewhat unusual...

I hopefully await information on whether the co-ed fraternity is Alpha Phi Omega, and if it is, which of the chapters it is...

Randy

[emb021]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Well, considering that apparently people just signed up and paid their $$ and were automatically members by doing absolutely nothing, I'm hoping to heaven this is NOT Alpha Phi Omega.

We don't know.

In APO we use a pledge program, but each chapter is free to develop their own specific program, so long as it follows our 20-point 'National Pledging Standard'. Many chapters have big/littles (we just rolled out an optional big/little ceremony that chapters can use, if they want). I've never heard the term "pledge mom" in APO. Its usually pledgemaster, pledge trainer, or the like.

Now, because some schools may not allow our chapters to use a proper pledge program, we do have an 'alternate new member education program' that can be used. At those school, they are basically forced (by the school, mind you) to do exactly that: induct people directly as members of APO, afterwhich we then have to educate them into what APO is all about. AFAIK, this is done at only a small number of schools.