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Originally Posted by gee_ess
Big issues - getting your national people to realize your chapter requires some flexibility in following hardline mandates. For example, my biggest beef, initiation. The 6 week new member period puts added pressure on the pledge class and the members to bond, find big sisters, etc. How do 130+ girls get to know each other in such a short time? How do the members get to know them? PLUS, the biggie, scheduling initiation around big campus events (SEC football, hello!) is a near impossibility. Any requests that have been made to extend the new member period by two weeks (to get closer to Thanksgiving and away from football season) have been refused. This small step would make a huge difference for a large chapter like ours. Even making some minor adjustments in the initiation ceremony would help but that has not been allowed either. (I am sure you can imagine how very, very tough it is to get through all of the initiation ritual in a timely fashion.)
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Have you all (i.e. the Arkansas Panhel you all) thought of asking the school to be the "bad guy"? That is, asking them to request that groups not schedule major events like initiation during football season. I'm sure they could come up with some BS excuse as to why that would sound good and would take the pressure off.