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Originally posted by aopinthesky
>>>Or a 40 year old women talking about rush. Sorry all you advisors out there, but is a little sad<<<
Sorry to hijack this thread, but this statement is offensive on many levels. Not only do collegiate chapters need 40 year old women, you desperately need their insight, advice and life experiences. They know a lot about a lot of things, rush is only one of them. These women who are still willing to "talk about rush" after they are 40 are the foundation which holds collegiate chapters together and ensures their growth. Where would you be without all those "40 year old women talking about rush" when you need advisors? I am 40+, still talking about rush and any other sorority issue about which I feel strongly. I hope I am still talking about it all when I am 80. My sorority membership did not end at graduation - it is for a lifetime. For that reason, my interest in the growth of my sorority as a whole will never end.
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This is what was already said about this:
posted by carnation:
"I disagree with what people have said about advisors needing to get a life. Face it, if there were no advisors and alums helping, there would be no sorority...undergrads often don't realize this and think that certain things just magically "appear" and/or happen, but they don't.
I'm not an advisor--I'm too far from any Pi Phi chapters--but I wish I could be, to try to give back even half the experiences that were provided for us. It's like the neat things that parents try to do for their own kids (like birthday parties) so that they'll have good memories. Some people are ready to give back what they were given right after they graduate; others may take a while. Never have I met an advisor whose whole life was wrapped up in an undergrad chapter.
Check out the alum involvement forum and see why we still love and help our GLOs."
Posted by ADPiViolets:
"I agree with you, Advisors are incredibly important to undergrads. Perhaps your chapter and my own are different though. You said you never met an advisor whose life was wrapped up in an undergrad chapter. In our chapter, they are incredibly obsessed. This is well known throughout the undergrads and even in a couple of the advisors who aren't so wrapped up. Perhaps if I had the advisors you had in college, I would feel differently about this.
But like I said, they are incredibly important. Chapters would be nonexistant without them."
Posted by: LeslieAGD
"I feel like this is a separate topic, but I do have one comment. While I do feel that advisors and alums are incredibly important, I believe ADPiViolets is refering to those advisors/alums who try to live vicariously through the current members and refuse to give up control and let the collegians make decisions for themselves."
Posted by: ADPiViolets
"Exactly!"