It is designed to test whether or not rushees are serious about regularly attending such projects as well as to introduce rushees to the brotherhood. APO's approach to rush is unique and effective - after all, I can't think of too many better ways to get to know and justly evaluate somebody than by working right beside them. Rushing culminates in a bid that APO gives every bit as energetically, and with as much pomp and circumstance as other greek organizations on their Bid Day. Life as an APO pledge is busy yet benevolent. Planning and executing the pledge class service project, which benefits a needy organization, is the main thrust of the pledge semester.
Pledges select the organization, raise the funds and then lead the project on the selected weekend.
Projects must be large enough in scale to occupy 80-100 brothers working a full day. The challenge is formidable, particularly when you consider that this is what you are doing for fun. More commonly, our rolls involve going out to breakfast or to watch the sunrise from a mountaintop. But when it's all over and done with, I still think it's one of the better decisions I have made. You may not reproduce the contents of this paper in any shape or form without the express written consent of The Cavalier Daily .