Mandatory Events

[Sister Havana]

Mandatory events in my APO chapter included rush (everyone had to go to at least one rush meeting), induction, initiation, and CPPC. (chapter planning retreat, where we reviewed what we'd done and planned for the next semester. This was usually combined with a service project and brotherhood retreat. It was much more fun than it sounds!) You also could only miss I think two active meetings per semester. If you couldn't go to any of those, you had to work it out with the membership VP. (There were makeup activities allowed but it was on a per-case basis)

Since we are a service fraternity, everyone had to do a minimum number of service hours per semester. I think it was usually 25 hours, of which at least 10 had to be in-chapter hours. It was possible to do all your hours as in-chapter (official chapter service project) hours, although volunteering with outside organizations was very much encouraged. Most people usually exceeded that and there was always a prize given to the brother with the most service hours at the end of each semester.