Dear Chapter,<br><br><br>It has come to our attention that over this semester several brothers have been adding their own service hours to the website. This practice will cease immediately. We have complied and saved a list of those people and the hours that were added and all of them will be contacted after their cases are judged individually. In light of this me and Allison would like to remind everyone that in order to be awarded any sort of service hour, it needs to be approved by the service chairs. I know I have been over how to get outside hours plenty of times before, but I shall go over it again one more time:<br>
<br> <u><b>You need to have written documentation of the amount of hours you did, your name and what you did which needs to be signed by a volunteer coordinator/project leader. That needs to be given to one of us and we will award you those hours on the website. You cannot just go on the website and give yourselves hours at will without giving us proof of what you did. </b></u><br>
<br>The reason we do this is that it ensures that people who do those hours are doing legitimate service to the either the community, the fraternity or the nation as par the principles of Alpha Phi Omega, principles everyone reading this email swore to uphold when they earned their title as a brother of AphiO. We also believe that this process is only fair to brothers who do put in countless hours of hard work doing service both inside and outside of AphiO. This is also how people log and track service hours for things such as job requirements, a requirement for an academic scholarship or a university requirement (such as club sports) which is why we adopted it. If you do believe this is a bad practice, please tell us! because as always we genuinely want your feedback on things.<br>
<br>To the majority of you who are earning your hours: keep up the good work! you guys are doing great and I'm very proud of the fact that I have received nothing but excellent feedback from the people and organizations you have worked with and I hope to see you guys at even more projects in the future!<br>
<br><br>In LFS, <br><br><br>-- <br><b><div><b>Vice Presidents of Service</b></div>Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity</b><div><b> <br>Robert Burke Allison Barwacz<br>937.239.3104 440.212.8108<br>
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