interesting... i went thru about a 10 week program... i can't imagine being initiated after only 5 weeks... but that's just me i suppose.
don't get me wrong... trying to keep a local house organized is enough work and stress for all the active members. So while being a new member can consist of a lot of activity... so can being an active. What we try to do is make the class work together as a team. That way when they eventually take over the house, they will have already known how everyone functions, how to plan events, discover that money for events doesn't grow on trees, and basically just get to know each other in the process. We don't pile on the work load for new members and then it suddenly drops after they become initiated. My question is that if girls are already complaining about the stress of going to events and planning things for their class to do, how are they going to handle planning things as an active when they hold an exec position? (Why do I get the feeling I am going to get attacked by the hazing police any minute now
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Sorry, I have lots of questions on how to maybe shoot out ideas on how to modify our NM program. I would rather do it all in one post than have 50 different ones at once...y'know.