About APO
Alpha Phi Omega at Iowa State is all about three values—
Leadership
We lead each other and the community through our actions and service. In APO, you can:
- Serve in one of more than a dozen executive leadership positions;
- Participate in regional and national leadership conferences;
- Lead weekly Boy Scout meetings at the Beloit residential treatment facility; and
- Help run bi-annual day camps for children at Beloit.
Friendship
We make plenty of time for fun and fellowship together. Past activities include:
- Wall-climbing and rappelling at Camp Matigua;
- End-of-semester chapter potlucks;
- Chapter barbeques at Brookside Park; and
- Post-meeting bowling nights.
Service
Most of all, we serve the university and community. During the past year, our chapter has:
- Volunteered at VEISHEA Service Day;
- Collected donations for and participated in Relay for Life;
- Served food and drink to Boy Scouts and counselors at Winter Breakout day-camps;
- Raised funds for and created gift baskets to be auctioned at Boone School District's Festival of Hope;
- Volunteered for the Stuff the Bus campaign to benefit the MICA food pantry;
- Cleaned-up the ditches of our Adopt-A-Highway section along Highway 30; and
- Raised funds for chapter activities with Cub Foods, Cold Stone Creamery, and the Haunted Forest.
Refer to the following frequently asked questions for more information on Alpha Phi Omega.
Why should I join and what can APO do for me?
How in the fraternity governed on campus?
What is the official relationship between Alpha Phi Omega and Scouting?
How can you be a fraternity without a house?
Where can I find more information?
Alpha Phi Omega is a national service fraternity of college students gathered together in an organization based on fraternalism and founded on the principles of Leadership, Friendship, and Service. Its goal is to further the freedom that is our national, educational, and intellectual heritage. Back to top.
Click here to e-mail our President about joining APO at Iowa State. Back to top.
Membership is open to any student enrolled on a campus where a chapter exists who is approved for membership by that chapter. If there is no chapter at your college, but there is a campus nearby where a chapter is located, contact that chapter and they might invite you to become part of their service program. Back to top.
Why should I join and what can APO do for me?
College should be more than the acquisition of facts and figures; it should also broaden your experiences, and expand and test your inherent abilities, and sharpen your social skills. Alpha Phi Omega, though is a program of leadership, friendship, and service, can add this necessary but often lacking aspect of college life and at the same time, enable you to help others while helping yourself. Back to top.
How is the fraternity governed on campus?
Under the Chapter Articles of Association and National Bylaws, each chapter is its own self-governing organization, electing its own officers and establishing its own operations rules and programs. Each chapter also elects an Advisory Committee consisting of three or more members of the faculty or administration and one or more scouting and community representatives. These advisers ensure continuity of operation as the student leaders change, and encourage the achievement of fraternal, scholastic, and service goals. Back to top.
What is the official relationship between Alpha Phi Omega and Scouting?
Alpha Phi Omega was founded on the principles of Scouting. The Boy Scouts of America is represented on our National Board of Directors; however, BSA does not govern, control, or finance Alpha Phi Omega in any way, and previous membership in a scouting group is not required to join our fraternity. Back to top.
How can you be a fraternity without a house?
Alpha Phi Omega is unique: it is a service fraternity. We use the concepts of fraternalism as a means of providing service, to ourselves as well as to others. The fact that our meetings are held in campus meeting rooms or in a brother's dorm room or apartment does not decrease our sense of brotherhood. In addition, since we are unique, we have no conflict with social fraternities; independents, commuters, dorm dwellers, and social fraternity members are all are welcome as members of Alpha Phi Omega. Back to top.
Where can I find more information?
If you still want to know more, visit the official Alpha Phi Omega Website. Back to top.