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Hi Nicole,
Your post sounds so much like what I say or have been saying for awhile now! Each point is valid! I hope you and the other younger BSP's who post to this site will e-mail or snail mail International and let them know why BSP is not gaining new and younger members! Keep sending them these valid points until they listen----sometimes it seems they don't listen and make changes until they have been "hammered" with mail and suggestions for quite awhile!
You are so correct that sending out your name to CC or to a chapter doesn't mean that this person is even contacted!! International seems to just add these names to their list of 8,000 or so women seeking BSP and doesn't really do anything about getting them into a chapter. Most times, International says start your own chapter---but we all know that doesn't work. International stops there and a lot of young women are left out!! This is very sad!
Many sisters who regularly use computers and visit the BSP bulletin board are appalled that member news has not been updated in quite awhile!! Members got pretty ugly with posts on the bulletin board then to get International to update!! Sometimes I feel that members have abandoned the BSP site in favor of the Beta Journal because it is kept current. The Beta Journal is designed and maintained by Karen Ing, a sister in Texas. The Beta Journal is aided by donations to Karen to keep it going. I may be wrong---but don't believe that International contributes to the Beta Journal! Because the Beta Journal site is so good, I believe that International is able to let the BSP site "go"!! I don't think anyone at International has the expertise that Karen has to work on the site!
I don't post very much here, although I occasionally read posts. I'm an "oldster" who very much admires you younger members who are willing to present these suggestions to International! BSP's reluctance to update and/or change any of the rules since the inception of BSP, their non recruitment of younger members and their unwillingness to leave their office to help younger chapters get started (many years ago, International sent out a representative to help with rush and to perform the pledge ritual! You have to be pretty old to remember this!) will contribute to BSP's demise in many cities! Very sad!
Thanks for letting me post my 2 cents!
JudyK
MAL
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