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To answer some of your questions: the chapter did not make qouta - by a lot! And the new members that they did get were not ones they really wanted which is causing a lot of problems. All the other GLOs on campus made qouta or got qouta additions.
I found out from the president who forwarded an email that Jenny had sent to the executive council telling them that I was responsible for the bad recruitment because I was the only volunteer there and that because I come from a better chapter (not my words - hers, yes the chapter I come from has a successful history and is competitive in the south) that I didn't under stand that there chapter has to "work" to get girls. And that it was my fault that I didn't understand RFM. And that all the girls should back her when she asks me not to come back and volunteer. The President replied and asked why wasn't Jenny there? Why didn't the membership advisor come when she said that she was going to? Jenny's response was that her friend/the membership advisors friend had come into town for a visit and they wanted to see her and she thought the chapter would be alright.
When I found out about what Jenny had said about blaming the bad recruitment results on me I called her and confronted her. And maybe I did tell her how to do her job a little and that she should have been there when she said she was going to be and that the membership advisor should have been there per our national policy. And that I would not take the responsibility for the entire problem because she knew all along that I was just a volunteer (my work schedule and the distance I live keep me from doing more with the chapter) and that I did not have any training when it came to recruitment except from my own knowledge that is 5 years old. She hung up on me and then wrote me a very nasty email, cc'ing all the advisors and volunteers where she cursed at me and called me names.
A few of the volunteers (some of the former ones who were also run off) have contacted me and just have said its for the best and that nationals knows that it isn't my fault and that Jenny is just trying to make someone a scapegoat because she didn't do her job.
Whoever said that its the chapters responsibility to succeed is based on the chapter itself and not the advisors and volunteers is correct. However, I think in this instance, the chapter relied so hevily on the advisors to help them that when they were left to fly on their own without any support they panicked and felt abandonded. IMO, the chapter should have been "weened" off the help, not just dumped.
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