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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. 89TH ANNIVERSARY COVENTION ADOPTS NEW MEMBERSHIP INTAKE PROCESS The elimination of risk, and the standardization of new member orientation and
development is better served if controlled, monitored, and supervised by the Fraternity
through its administrative center. It is impractical if not impossible for every chapter in
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the Fraternity to be allowed to intake new members and expect the General Organization to have suf cient control over the process or to eliminate the risk associated with traditional methods of initiating members. Quality assurance in the content of the
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educational phase cannot be compromised to maximiz^the initial impression of this most
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Die Membership Intake Process (MIP) must be centralized and controlled at the national level. The rationalization is simple. Since the entire Fraternity is held liable for illegal acts committed by members who chose not to follow our constitutional mandate, the or our regulations, then the national staff must coordinate, control and
managetheentireprocessfrombeginningtoend.Weshalldemonstrateourleadershipto the world. To hold high the name and its ideals, we must do what is necessary to
eradicatetheproblemswithanuncontrollableprocess.Weshallbe rstofall,servantsof
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all and transcend all. We must act boldly and de antly change the paradigms that hold us hostage to sadistic and barbaric traditions that have no place of honor in our organization
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or culture. We cannot follow the leads of other Greek-lelter organizations who fail to take seriously the problems associated with hazing.
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This policy paper proposes an enhanced staf ng structure for the purpose of creating the infrastructure to manage the process as well as signiacanl procedural changes for
membership Intake. There shall be aminimum of four-full lime paid staff positions, three of which are new. These brothers will be responsible for coordinating all membership
intake for the Fraternity. These brothers must be appropriately trained, must be mature leaders and fully empowered to cany out their responsibilities. We would expect that thesebrothershavethedemonstratedabilitytofullyandcompletelymanage,monitorand control the intake process.
We will develop and widely distribute membership brochures. The brochures shall outline the outstanding characteristics of the Fraternity. The brochure will also set forth the desirable characteristics for those who would aspire to become amembet of this
fraternity. Finally, the brochure shall set forth how one may become amember, including requiring that any application must be obtained from the national of ce. Below we will outline the process for receiving applications, processing applications,
history and risk management certi cation, aspirant interviews, community service program/projectsasapartoftheintakeprocessandtheintakeofthecandidates.
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