F Minus

I failed the chap­ter as President.

That’s all I could think of last night as the chap­ter dis­cussed the con­tro­ver­sial motion to over­turn the SVPs’ deci­sion. It should never have been made. Not because of my per­sonal views on the motion itself, but it shouldn’t have been made because things shouldn’t have got­ten to that point.

The whole sit­u­a­tion seems to be born of a per­fect storm of mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, between offices and even between part­ners of an office. I thought I had pre­pared my ExComm bet­ter than that.

And even given that hor­ri­ble mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion, bring­ing up the motion wasn’t a very good idea. I wish the par­ties involved had talked to me or to the advis­ers first. I thought I made myself acces­si­ble and open to the chap­ter, but I guess I was wrong, and some peo­ple aren’t com­fort­able enough to bring their issues to me.

Because of these fail­ings, we have good actives who feel betrayed or attacked by the chap­ter, and are ready and will­ing to just walk away from APhiO, and that hurts all of us.