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My 06 Cents
When it comes to Alumni Chapters the first problem is that we do not set high enough standards - my opinion has always been that it should be HARDER to gain membership in an Alumni Chapter than a college Chapter (I was made in a Alumni Chapter). Alumni chapters seem to push for friends to get in instead of the best people. No matter if you have intake every 1 year or every 10 years this will be a problem. If college chapters joined more alumni chapters and initiated more members(no blamed layed just points) then alumni chapters would not be making more people. (Biggest fiction is that Alumni chapters follow intake rules to the book and that most initiates are people who could not hang in undergrad).
College Chapters need to keep up high standards and there must be strong interaction in order to keep our college brothers and sisters active. 2.5 is the minimum not the STANDARD! There is a key time when a student graduates and joins a grad chapter that many of us are missing out on. Question - How many alumni members on GC know their college sorors and brothers on a personal level? What they like or dislike. How many college brothers and sorors name more than 4 people in their graduate chapters in their area? Any personal relationships outside of their advisor? A lot of areas the answer is no.
Pledging(not 100% hazing) is a good way to filter people but it is not 100% full proof. There are many people that came through an Alumni chapter with the intake process and DO MORE for thier chapters than those that claim pledging and vice versa is true as well(people who pledge do more for their chapters than people who do not).
We have to stop bringing in our friends into our orgs and start looking for the best PEOPLE. Those will be the people who will remain active.
The rewards for being a member is being a member! I always looked at being an Alpha Man as an exclusive privlage that not everyone can have! That sounds arrogant and some would say ignorant but that idea helps me keep my Neo Energy and do for my Org because DEEP IN MY HEART I LOVE MY A PHI A.
That was my 06 cents
Sphinxpoet
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