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I feel like we are becoming like the white sororities with all the emphasis on intake.
AKA is an ELITE and EXCLUSIVE organization built with the crème of the crop women dedicated to sisterhood and serving the community. There is a certain aire about being an AKA. This exclusivity, elitness, and aire would all be non-existant if we let to many people in. Do we really want to be as over crowed with members as our white counterparts? AKA has servived almost a hundred years and we’re no way near as big as some of the other organizations, but our impact has been felt.
I personally don’t believe we should initiate at the Graduate Level at all. If you didn’t pledge undergrad then obviously something is suspect about you. Most people go grad because they didn’t get picked undergrad, or because they want to get in the easy way. Becoming an AKA is hard. I had to go through a lot in humbling myself to my sorors and making my self stand out. I resent it when someone has a friend who’s a soror who gets them in at the grad level. It takes away from the process and they could never appreciate anything that’s handed to them. I say that undergrads should be more selected and have a line atmost once every 4 years. That way, people only get one chance. I disagree with graduate intake, but once every 10 or 15 years is a good compromise. It’s hard to get anything done when your chapter is too big. We should focus on the people who are inactive….these are the examples of people who just pledged for the name AKA. It wouldn’t make any sense to initiate new people when we still have some old T-Shirt wears to deal with. If we could reclaim all the inactive sorors we have now, we wouldn’t need any new members for a very long time. I think an reclaimed soror will be a better asset to the organization than a new soror, because the inactive soror has already paid her dues to become a member and she knows what AKA is TRULY about from experience.
Besides, the top people woun’t be as interested in AKA if it’s too big. People want to feel like they are elite and a part of something that most people can’t get into. This makes the organization more close knit and looked upon with envy and awe. If we want to stay the premier African American Sorority, we must not open so many doors for outsiders and instead develop the close knit bond we have amongst each other.
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