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Originally posted by KLPDaisy
If your nationals says you have to initiate after 8 weeks, then you have to initiate after 8 weeks. Plain and simple. The only way you can supercede nationals ever is if your school mandates a longer pledge period which I really don't see any school ever doing. Most people don't hold positions the semester after initiation anyways unless there are dire circumstances, and if you're from a larger chapter, that shouldn't be a problem for you.
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I'm sorry but I just don't think it's that simple to say, "they told you to do it so you have to". In the end this will hurt my chapter and others. I understand that in sororities that is often how things are done, but in fraternities there is a different process by which you can disagree with the 'higher ups'. I was just looking for some input on perhaps what other GLO's, in particular fraternities, who may have similar circumstances do.
PS I will also mention that I am an alumnus, serve on house corporation, and as an advisor to the chapter. As an undergrad I was an exec for 2 years and held 4 seperate administrative positions including rush and the pledge education committee. So I have put a lot of thought into the effects of this. I'm not just a member who maybe doesn't like change...I tried to see the positives in this when it was being decided and when my chapter was developing the changes in its program to meet the new requirement, I liked the program my chapter came up with to incorporate the change, it's proving to be effective. But the practice that they want us to do will not be.
The other issue is that no one from 'higher up' said anything to us while we were incorporating this into our chapter's operations. They only made it an issue AFTER we had already gone through 8 wks. The language in the change was too vauge and not anyone I know read it the way they did. Poor communication. The traveling cosultant even had to make a call to the Central office to clairify if we could or couldn't do it (he actually thought our way was a good way to interperet and run the program).