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Originally Posted by sdbeta1
I am going to disagree on this thought. The chapter exists without a greek lettered designation if it is a new colonization. Re-colonizations obviously have the old chapter designation. So the chapter designation until a charter arrives is simply the name of your school. Once a colony charters, all previously initiated members are still a part of that chapter. For the time being, my badge doesn't have greek letters indicating a chapter but it has my roll number for the chapter I joined. I don't look at it as being initiated into another chapter, but rather as being initiated by another chapter. The normal pledge period is performed but with a lot more responsibility. At the end of the semester, a visiting chapter will conduct the initiation. Not initiating the class is unjust to older members (Seniors, and Juniors) who move far away after graduation or go into active duty. The enhancement of the colony experience is completed upon chartering.
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Different strokes for different folks I guess. Our alums had no trouble coming back to be initiated. Some were not initiated when we received our charter. One was on active military duty in Alaska and didn't make it back for at least a year. No problem initiating him though. We reserved his badge number and everything.
Also, your organization's scroll number probably works different than ours. My younger brother is an ATO (yes, I know). His scroll number was not from his chapter, but from his national. He was like the 112415th person initiated (or something like that, I have no idea). That would work for colonies.
I also philosophically believe that we ought to treat recharters and colonizations in exactly the same way. Awarding a scroll/badge number to a recharter while not doing so for a colony is unjust in my opinion.
Beta, don't get me wrong, I'm not here to tell you that I think Beta is doing it wrong. There's no doubt that a lot of thought and planning goes into the colonization process for any group. I'm just telling you that I'm glad Sigma Nu does it the way I described for the reasons above.