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Poster Name:
NPC WOMAN

<strong>Subject:</strong><br />aphi havard goes independent<br /><br /> Poster Message:
www.cambridgealphaphi.com/transition The Harvard College members of the Iota Tau chapter in partnership with Alpha Phi International Fraternity have decided to suspend our chapter charter and become an independently governed group in accordance with Harvard's social organization policies. We will be working to have gender-inclusive recruitment practices and a gender-inclusive membership in the near future. Being Alpha Phi and an all-female organization has provided our past members with positive fulfillment in college and beyond. Our chapter strongly believes in the importance of organizations like us, and the community a female organization provides is one of the main reasons we all went through recruitment. The purpose of all Alpha Phi chapters is to continue to seek the highest ideal of womanhood and intellectual development through love and charity. However, future growth of our chapter membership would be in opposition with the sanctions being imposed on our members by Harvard University. Last month, we aimed to stay affiliated but despite the best intentions we had, the alarm it raised in our chapter throughout all classes was eye-opening. Given the penalties our campus has put in effect on our youngest class of members and all future classes, our organization found it imperative that we achieve some level of recognition by our school in order to ensure we remain true to our purpose and value system. Although older classes are not directly affected by the sanctions, we are in support of obtaining interim recognition because we want to remain an organization that provides only benefit to its future members, and does not force prioritization of chapter membership over academic and extracurricular success. This required our chapter to take official action, but we hope our ties with Alpha Phi will continue until our youngest class of initiated members graduates. Ultimately, Alpha Phi was founded to provide help, hand in hand, to a community of women so we could achieve success that paralleled the men around us. We do not believe our school’s sanctions are justified, but in non-compliance, we are giving up on young women who came to our organization for a strong community and are instead forced to risk their future success. Our letters have been something we wear with pride in the past, and it should not turn into something we are afraid to share. With great sadness, we have departed from Alpha Phi International with hopes that one day we may be able to reestablish the Iota Tau Chapter.