APO at my school?.......

[PiratePrincess]

Several of my friends and I are interested in starting a service co-ed frat. It turns out APO was at our campus years ago, but has since gone inactive. We are looking to reactivate it. I have some questions though...

I know APO is related to the boy scouts. I know they have several requirements for joining. Such as being of a certain sexuality or religion. Being that my school has students of many different backgrounds (myself included) I was wondering if this was the case with APO as well.

How many faculty members are needed to advise the organization. I think I remember reading that a member of the scouts has to be an advisor....but Im confused on that part.

How many hour are service are required per year/per semester?

Anything else you could tell me would be appreciated... I have a meeting this week with student activities and need to know as much as possiable.

[c00kymonstr]

Your best bet to gain information about starting a chapter is to contact our National Office. I've included a link to our information request form below. They will be able to answer any questions you have!

http://www.apo.org/pages/show/How_to...w_Chapter_Form

APO was founded on scouting principles. We maintain a partnership with the Boy Scouts, but are not governed by them. APO has an open membership policy that differs from the BSA membership policy.

We require a minimum of 4 advisors: 2 from faculty/staff of your university, 1 from a scouting or youth services field (i.e. teacher), and 1 community advisor.

Service hour requirements are determined by each individual chapter. APO nationally does encourage service projects twice a year; one week in the fall semester, and a day in the spring.

What university do you attend?

[PiratePrincess]

I attend Wagner College is Staten Island NY.
Thanks for the info.

[naraht]

The closest active chapters to Wagner are at NYU, Polytechnic and CUNY-Hunter.

Kappa Epsilon at Wagner was active from 1952 to 1977. Both men and women have been brothers of the chapter.

[PiratePrincess]

Hey everyone. Im a little sad now. School has only been in session 3 days now and I've already had 2 meetings with student activities about bringing APO to my campus. The school is for it and theres been a lot of interest from students. Heres the sad part. I was discussing with my friends the pledging process. I mentioned it was odd how we would be ones pledging new people but we would never had gone through pledging. Then I was infomed that we would probably have to go to the closest campus and go through their pledge process. Now the closest campus is NYU, which while in NYC, is still 1 1/2 hours away due to shuttle/ferry/subway....add in there are times I don't have $$ to even do my own laundry nevermind have $$ to take the subway everyweek. Plus I have several night classes this semester....so I would be in class while other schools are having their meeting. I'm bumbed cuz this whole thing was my idea and now it looks like I can't do it.

[Senusret I]

Did you contact the national office? Your concerns would be best addressed by someone there.

I would say more, but I don't think it's wise considering I am not in your region and I'm not aware of how they conduct expansion there.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by PiratePrincess

Hey everyone. Im a little sad now. School has only been in session 3 days now and I've already had 2 meetings with student activities about bringing APO to my campus. The school is for it and theres been a lot of interest from students. Heres the sad part. I was discussing with my friends the pledging process. I mentioned it was odd how we would be ones pledging new people but we would never had gone through pledging. Then I was infomed that we would probably have to go to the closest campus and go through their pledge process. Now the closest campus is NYU, which while in NYC, is still 1 1/2 hours away due to shuttle/ferry/subway....add in there are times I don't have $$ to even do my own laundry nevermind have $$ to take the subway everyweek. Plus I have several night classes this semester....so I would be in class while other schools are having their meeting. I'm bumbed cuz this whole thing was my idea and now it looks like I can't do it.

I'm very surprised at that. I'd like to know who informed you that you would have to go through the pledge process at another school first.

Please let us know the name of the person, there are alumni staffers here who know the staff around the country well enough to tell at what level the person who said it is and who would be the next person up the line to talk to about this.

And even if this does turn out to be correct, you would still be able to be part of the effort, even if delayed a bit. The group *will* run through a recruitment and adding new members phase (think of it as testing out pledging) before chartering, the fact that they can do so is one of the things that shows that it can continue to remain active. And *that* phase will be on campus.

I've got some other comments, but they depend too much on the name of the person who told you this...

YiLFS
Randy