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Also I have seen a trend in new members not caring to get to know actives and acting like its their right to automatically get initiated into the sorority
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This is the problem that many houses have to learn to deal with. Treating someone differently because they are a new member is fine IMHO. They are probationary, to demand respect is to demand that they respect the letters they are wearing. I see nothing wrong with that. To demand that they know at the very least their own history, I see nothing wrong with that...
In most organizations you still have to earn your way in. In mine, for a candidate to become an initiate requires a unanimous vote of the active membership. Around a quarter of them typically get cut, sometimes more, sometimes less -- that is anyone that we see not giving 110% to the fraternity and their academics.
Something that we've found to be very helpful is placing our new guys in charge of events. The new members are responsible for coordinating our homecoming efforts, greek week efforts and they put on a major social event every semester. They don't do it FOR us but they lead the entire house in it.
And of course that unanimous vote at the end can be a great motivator in getting them to go and meet the actives =)
LHT,
Kevin