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Originally posted by 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.
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I can think of some pretty big schools - both of my undergrad schools for example, that no NPC group would have a huge alumnae base, because they are rinky-dink towns with major universities. (Champaign-Urbana, IL and Stillwater, OK) Both are significantly removed frome the major urban areas in their respective states, so although you would have a handful of alumnae, you wouldn't necessarily have enough to staff an AAC and a CB.
Also, my earlier post about AIs becoming advisers did not say anything about the AI being 22 years old.
Finally, we train our advisers, as I am sure every other NPC group does. The chapter is run by the girls in it, not the advisers. Our advisers have plenty of resources available to them, especially in this day and age with technology. Unless we are AI-ing morons, a competent, educated woman with the qualities we look for in all of our members, should be able to do a fine job as an adviser. By your standards, it would seem that only a former recruitment chair would be a good recruitment adviser, and a former Chapter President would be a CA, etc.
Collegians frequently get annoyed when their advisers talk about, "well back when I was in school we did it this way." That is a non-issue for an AI. Ha ha. Seriously though, should only members from housed chapters be allowed to serve on Corp Boards? They have NO collegiate experience in sorority housing. A lot of it is just good people skills, some business sense, and a lot of life experience. Oh, and a good manual.