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People are usually just doing the best they can, and they sometimes make mistakes. I suspect everyone would do this differently in hindsight.
It's a sad situation for the individual women and for Delta Zeta. I think it's going to be even harder to recruit, and they may have essentually just destroyed this chapter.
It also got me thinking: when a chapter just kind of "dies" off on it's own, as in a gradual decline in membership until a decision is made to close the chapter, it seems that the international or national organization has done all they can to help it, and it doesn't usually seem disrespectful to the women or men who were last active in the chapter.
But when a chapter has sustained itself at a certain size level, and the organization "reorganizes" by having people go alum early, it seems disrespectful to those last active members. How would you feel as a member of the most recent pledge class to be told that your active experience was over? It seems unjust somehow.
Is there anyway to get the kind of "recolonization" energy going without shutting the last actives out?
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