[33girl]

OK, I think everyone's completely missing my point - which was asking about the wisdom of a brand new AI advising a BRAND NEW chapter. It doesn't matter if she's not the main advisor, I would think that helping a new chapter that is going to have tons of questions would be best done by those with SOME sort of experience under their belt - alum or collegiate - just so the chapter doesn't get off on the wrong foot.

I think a woman should become an AI and that the sorority should invite her to do so because of what she can give overall, not because of "holy crap, we've got a new chapter in Pig's Knuckle Arkansas with no alums around, we need to AI some people." If having a strong alum base nearby is that important to the sorority and they don't have it, they shouldn't have put in a bid to colonize there in the first place.