[33girl]

Your post reminds me so much of a friend of mine - a super nice and intelligent woman who got out of advising for many of the same reasons you did. She felt that her role as advisor and mentor to the women - i.e, someone they could rely on and be open with - was being compromised by all the paperwork and some of the policies.

Re #2, how is your chapter retention - how many of those women who pledge as first semester freshmen are still active members as graduating seniors? Or the Greek system in general's retention, for that matter?

Yes, a lot of the forms are totally pointless. Yes, a lot of them are only there to cover the butts of the national organization. Unfortunately, that is our crappy litigious society. I would just stop "hounding" the collegians. If they don't turn things in, it is not your job to get them to do so, any more than it is your job to rush new members or go to mixers. If they lose out or get their chapter in trouble because they don't do what they're supposed to, the onus is on them, not on you. If you're getting blamed because they don't have their act together, I would speak with your volunteer coordinator or whatever your GLO calls it. As you so correctly put out, making the advisor into the equivalent of mom doesn't help these women to grow.