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Originally posted by Happydaysf91
...we only have a handful of movers and shakers that are living up to the true meaning of our pledges....participating in community service, going to conferences and etc. Those handful can't run the chapter as a whole, watch the undergrads day and night (exaggeration), take care of their families, have a career or etc.
I'm not making excuses for graduate members. There is room for improvement. However, I'm trying to figure out what exactly people want from graduate members? Even if we show up to everything, have an excellent mentorship program in place, extend the 'process'....hazing on the undergrad level could still possibly continue...because we can't be with them all day and all night.
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Exactly, Soror.
I'm on our UG Activities Committee. It is DAYUM hard trying to handle 'regular' sorority business (service, committee meetings, etc.), life responsibilities, and still have time for the UGs. HECK, I'm single and childless and IT'S DAYUM HARD, so I'm sure that for a person married WITH kids it's EXTRA HARD. Anyway, we do what we want and don't do what we don't want... I tell ya, if you let it, you (as a ACTIVE Graduate member) can become very BURNED OUT!
Even with the UG committee, it's hard for the 10 of us, excluding the GA to make/support events. We can "talk" to UGs until we are Pink in the face, but doing the RIGHT/CORRECT thing is an INTERNAL issue. This is something that had to be taught when they came out of the womb. It doesn't matter what process an organization has, if one comes and is UNETHICAL, then that's it...he/she is UNETHICAL....simple as that! We cannot change THAT PERSON! He or she must be willing to change her/himself. Do we have time to wait for this to happen?
My chapter president says that "Doing the Right Thing" is a personal issue and it cannot be regulated, per se. I feel that if this was 100% accurate then we would not need LAWS. We have laws throughout this land and if someone breaks those laws, they are punished accordingly. What's different about our organizations? If we left everything up to each individual about "doing the right thing" (a land without laws) what kind of world would we live in?
I'm about "0 Tolerance." If you can't abide, you have to go!
Oh, if you think "stuff" doesn't happen on the Graduate level, then you better ask somebody.