Member Apathy
Hey guys,
First time posting. I would like to know what your chapters have done to help decrease member apathy. To be a bit more candid, I am writing this post for myself. I am an undergraduate transfer student from one chapter to another within the same fraternity. I am finding that I am having a difficult time relating to virtually 90% of the members within the house and when I try to take on a position of leadership, they say that I don't know what I am doing and I cannot be an effective leader, even though I held the same positions I was running for at my previous chapter.
This has happened twice (I am a senior now, I transfered as a Junior) and now I am just finding myself dreading going over to the house and starting to see it as a unpleasant drain on my personal finances because I see no benefit to me even continuing on.
On more than one occasion I have felt direct hostility towards myself from my other brothers, mostly verbal but a few times some of the 'native' members of the chapter have wanted to out right fight me and it required several of my 'brothers' to hold him back.
Am I at a complete loss, or when I was just dropped into the middle of this foreign situation and expected to act like a 'native', should I have tried even harder?
I would appreciate any advice that anyone could give me, I don't particularly care how harsh, positive, or ambivalent it is.
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