Why did you join?

[Senusret I]

I joined to be further connected to the history and culture of my school, and to step outside of my shell of African American cultural activities like the Black Student Alliance or NAACP chapter. Basically, to feel more like part of Georgetown instead of apart from it.

[naraht]

I spent my last two years of scouting on Taiwan, and was in a BSA troop there. One thing that the troop did my first year there was to help at a Catholic orphanage for the severly mentally handicapped. The staff who weren't nuns had gone home for Chinese New Years and we were helping to fill in. We helped to feed them and in some cases change them (I'm quite sure that BSA councils in the USA would have kittens over the involvement we had). That fed into a Counselor at the Council Scout Camp who talked about APO and later that summer to visiting the APO booth at the 1985 Jamboree.

I walked into the chapter office at Carnegie-Mellon during Freshman prep week and indicated that I wanted to join. I'd have probably done the same thing at just about any other school with an APO chapter.