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Originally Posted by 33girl
Reading through this and the rec thread, does anyone else think it’s bat guano crazy to be doing all this in the middle of a worldwide pandemic?
I mean - the people who are pushing all these changes through have probably picked an optimum time to do so as most of us are occupied with other more pressing things or in the throes of depression. When everyone snaps out of it and wakes up, will these policies really stay? How many national convention throwdowns will result?
I also wonder how the national leadership of so many groups has come to be so far out of touch with the rest of the membership.
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In answer to your final thought: Consultants, both the legal kind and the operational kind.
Some national sorority boards have been under the spell of consultants for too many years. Consultants stand as middlemen between the sorority boards and sorority constituents.
Consultants sometimes ask the wrong questions of boards and constituants. This can result in poor sorority decisions being made and incorrect actions being taken.
Consultants are sometimes tasked to encourage policies passed by a board but considered unnecessary and discouraging to the constituants because constituants feel they have not been properly consulted or heard.
Another thread spoke about members of sorority boards needing to make high yearly monetary bequests to their orgs in order to even be on said boards. That denies some people from becoming a major decision maker for their org.