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Originally Posted by 33girl
This and this. It's nothing you can "prove" on paper, but it certainly does exist. And it will continue to exist until chartering an alum chapter becomes a bit more difficult.
This is one of the reasons I think all national groups should support both chapter associations (where everyone in it is from the same collegiate chapter) and alumnae chapters (which are open to everyone in a certain geographic region). That way if you only want to associate with the Mu Mu chapter XYZ alums, you can, and you won't be ruining an alum chapter for someone who just moved to BFE and is trying to connect with XYZ sisters.
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To some extent I think facebook helps a lot with this. (Or pick you social networking site here.) You can keep in touch with your sisters from your chapter but your alumnae chapter is, well, your chapter. I have not been active in my (kind of) local one because it hasn't been convenient and I've been poor (bad alumna) but I actually enjoy being with different people of all ages from different chapters and many times our goal is supporting the local collegiate chapter, which makes it less about "us" so to speak.