Comments on: “Deferred” Rush and Recruitment…Is it all that it cracks up to be? http://voices.crossandcrescent.com/art-hebbeler/2007/10/05/deferred-rush-and-recruitmentis-it-all-that-it-cracks-up-to-be/ a Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity publication Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Glen Alan Graham http://voices.crossandcrescent.com/art-hebbeler/2007/10/05/deferred-rush-and-recruitmentis-it-all-that-it-cracks-up-to-be/#comment-8804 Glen Alan Graham Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:32:11 +0000 http://voices.crossandcrescent.com/art-hebbeler/2007/10/05/deferred-rush-and-recruitmentis-it-all-that-it-cracks-up-to-be/#comment-8804 <p>Brother Art, as I read your blog entries (this and the previous), I can sense your pain. I too ask, "What is our world coming to?" However, I'm actually finding hope for the future within our Brotherhood: the young men we are recruiting and the Ritual and its teachings to which they either have just been exposed or will soon be exposed.</p> <p>Example: last nite I attended Formal Zeta at Pi-Epsilon Zeta on the campus of nearby University of the Incarnate Word here in San Antonio. The meeting got intense, as the young Brothers seemed for the most part to be clueless about how a meeting should proceed, and there were lots of argument over and misuse of Roberts Rules of Order! However, 1) they all were dressed in coat and tie and looking sharper than most university men their age and 2) the High Pi cracked the whip to get them in line regarding proper procedures for a formal meeting. Furthermore, I sensed that all of them CARE about each other and about the Brotherhood, and that there isn't a "bad apple" in the bunch.</p> <p>I've also attended Formal Zeta at Phi-Upsilon at UTSA, and have come away with similar "good vibes" (to use a phrase which was current when I was an undergrad).</p> <p>As long as we of Lambda Chi Alpha continue to be selective about whom we associate and remain serious about our teachings, both in the observance and in the passing them on to associates, we shall not only be appropriating the Divine Light we cherish but we shall be shining it out on a darkening world. And yuo and I, Brother, shall continue on in our being proud to be Lambda Chi Alpha men!</p> <p>In ZAX,</p> <p>Glen Alan Graham EG 540, University of Idaho 1976</p> Brother Art, as I read your blog entries (this and the previous), I can sense your pain. I too ask, “What is our world coming to?” However, I’m actually finding hope for the future within our Brotherhood: the young men we are recruiting and the Ritual and its teachings to which they either have just been exposed or will soon be exposed.

Example: last nite I attended Formal Zeta at Pi-Epsilon Zeta on the campus of nearby University of the Incarnate Word here in San Antonio. The meeting got intense, as the young Brothers seemed for the most part to be clueless about how a meeting should proceed, and there were lots of argument over and misuse of Roberts Rules of Order! However, 1) they all were dressed in coat and tie and looking sharper than most university men their age and 2) the High Pi cracked the whip to get them in line regarding proper procedures for a formal meeting. Furthermore, I sensed that all of them CARE about each other and about the Brotherhood, and that there isn’t a “bad apple” in the bunch.

I’ve also attended Formal Zeta at Phi-Upsilon at UTSA, and have come away with similar “good vibes” (to use a phrase which was current when I was an undergrad).

As long as we of Lambda Chi Alpha continue to be selective about whom we associate and remain serious about our teachings, both in the observance and in the passing them on to associates, we shall not only be appropriating the Divine Light we cherish but we shall be shining it out on a darkening world. And yuo and I, Brother, shall continue on in our being proud to be Lambda Chi Alpha men!

In ZAX,

Glen Alan Graham
EG 540, University of Idaho 1976

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