BGSU is home to many organizations such as Dance Marathon, Vision and other multicultural and academic organizations. The University’s Office of Campus Activities oversees all of the organizations. Recently, they have renewed the list of office housing and spacing for all of the organizations.
One of the organizations is my service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, which now does not have an office for the 2016-2017 school year.
Alpha Phi Omega is one of the largest organizations on this campus with over 100 active members. We should very well have our own office. Not sure as to what OCA was thinking.
Whether it was a personal attack against our organization, or some sort of strange conspiracy to make sure we wouldn’t have an office has yet to be determined. Maybe it could have been just a mere misunderstanding.
The only people who can answer this is OCA. Not putting Alpha Phi Omega above any other organization, but we have many things that we do and events and things to keep track of.
It would be tough to operate in many aspects, such as holding office hours, without an actual office.
Alpha Phi Omega executive members have attempted to speak to OCA countless times, and have yet to hear back from them. Sadly, a lot of offices and councils who oversee multiple organizations have always done this. They change something without warning, and when someone questions it, they take forever to respond to that person.
What people want are answers to why councils and offices change things the way they do. I think leaders of organizations should take more of a stand and stand up for what they want, like what my fraternity is doing right now. Even in the professional world, everyone deserves to be heard and have equal rights. Everyone should take a stand for what they want and the change that needs to happen. It is unknown how OCA operates and makes decisions. Maybe there is a shortage of offices? Maybe there are too many organizations for them to grant space to? Without space, I’m sure Alpha Phi Omega could make it work, but the question still remains: why wasn’t Alpha Phi Omega awarded with a office space?
With this new change, there are going to have to be some adjustments. An option that OCA could have done would be to have multiple organizations maybe share an office space. That could work depending upon how often a single organization uses its office space. Maybe OCA could even start making use of the room suites that are in different parts of the union. I feel like there are so many things that OCA could do as far as helping out Alpha Phi Omega and the other organizations who are currently without an office, or any type of office space.
It is still currently unknown as to how OCA determines office spacing.
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