Joining APO next semester?

Just to address a few things:

For the record, I am 99% sure OP is an active or ex-active posing as a “potential rushee” and trying to stir the pot. We went thru this last semester with a Fall 2020 exec member (we know who you are, also jsyk IRC literally created a new rule bc of your abuse of power) It’s literally just us old actives talking with each other about this except publicly and I’m honestly sad people are taking to reddit to talk shit. Our pledges and new actives deserve better.

a) None of this is the President’s fault. According to one of our advisors we have had 12 hour elections in the past. Everyone is so quick to jump on criticizing him for shit that isn’t even his fault and it’s incredibly frustrating.

b) I too have seen the chats in question myself. Not just screenshots, the whole enchilada. I do not believe they qualify as campaigning. It’s an open secret that people chat with each other during elections (people did this when we had in person elections too) and now suddenly everyone is piling on this poor girl. In all honesty it’s not the choice I would have made, and I have made this known to her. I think it’s a better idea not to do this in group chats, but literally no one who spoke in favor of this candidate was pressured to do so, just that people seemed to perceive it that way.

“Affirmative votes on the following cannot be reconsidered: Proceed to the Orders of the Day; Adopt, or after they are adopted, to Amend, or Repeal, or Rescind, the Constitution, By-laws, or Rules of Order or any other rules that require previous notice for their amendment; Elect to membership or office if the member or officer is present and does not decline, or if absent and has learned of his election in the usual way and has not declined; to Reopen Nominations. A negative vote on the motion to Postpone.” You can find this on page 81: https://robertsrules.org/robertsrules.pdf We follow Robert’s Rules for a reason.

c) We cannot do a rushed JRC. The Gov Docs says two weeks. If we rushed it that would be even worse. If y’all wanna JRC KP next semester go ham, but don’t blame the President or Sergeant for not putting together a sham JRC that would literally go against our fucking bylaws.

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