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Originally posted by UNLDelt
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Well in speaking with the executive vp of our central office I was informed that what 'should' be done is all pledges who have been their eight weeks should either be initiated or depledged and that there is no longer an academic requirement to initiate but ONLY the academic requirement to retain thier membership.
But my issue and one that my chapter shares is that how can you have an academic requirement to RETAIN MEMBERSHIP but not to OBTAIN MEMBERSHIP? It's a logic problem here: as we see it initation is the doorway to membership, so to be elligible for initation you should be able to demonstrate elligibility for membership, right?. If you have an academic requirement for membership then you should have an academic requirement to initiate thus achieving that membership.
In addition I have looked at our International Constitution and Bylaws every which way where this change was made. I have not found one sentence that indicates that a chapter cannot have an academic standard/requirement for initation, or cannot offer to men who do not meet that standard after one eight week period, the opportunity to utilize the second eight weeks of that semester to meet it and then initate.
I asked the Exec VP to point to the sentence in the Constiution and Bylaws that we were violating by having and academic standard for initation and by offering the guys a second eight week chance to meet it and he couldn't.
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Sorry I didn't re-read the thread before asking but... I'm assuming you're talking about initiating first semester freshmen? Although I'm sure your reply will express the dramatic difference between high school and college grades, you could always have a minimum high school GPA as a requirement for pledgeship. This is what sororities do. Just being honest, though... it doesn't always work out for us, but it's better than nothing.