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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Look, I'm of the mind that if you want to scrap a chapter and start all over again, you REALLY start all over again. You don't pick-and-choose sisters to keep. If DZ had simply "reorganized" or closed the chapter, sadly, for numbers, and made everyone an alumna, they would not be in this situation.
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And as is evidenced from threads that have popped up in GC, even doing that can be a giant cluster$%@k. The only time an immediate recolonization seems to work is when 1) the school is super large and there are enough women to choose from who weren't in the "orbit" of what was happening previously 2) the women who are being made alumnae truly are OK with the decision and are treated with the respect due alumnae by the national organization. And even when that happens, sometimes the more the new alums think about it, the more upset they get. It festers.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the last two recolonizations my sorority did were at chapters that hadn't been open since (respectively) Nixon and Wilson were in office.