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Originally posted by ShaedyKD
I agree that younger members should try to take on small leadership roles at first, such as recruitment committees, assisting new member educators, planning philanthropies and fundraisers. This is how they can prepare for bigger roles on exec in your chapter. You just have to eventually trust the newer sisters, that they will carry the chapter into the future. They can do it, they have great role models to look up to!
I don't agree that a 6th year senior would be a bad president, because when you think of it, she has seen 5 or maybe more presidents serve terms. She could improve upon what all of them did. She knows your ritual and traditions. As long as she is enthusiastic and has the time, I think an older member is the perfect president. What could a 22 or 23 year old have in common with freshmen? They are all sisters of course. They share the same ideals, purpose and live by the same motto. When you share ritual with someone, you are closer than friends, you are sisters. Sisters are for life.
AOT to all my sisters in Kappa Delta!
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A 6th year senior is also very rooted in tradition. If the chapter votes to change a policy, she will be a lot more upset. We recently changed our scholarship requirements, and some of the older sisters were very upset because they wouldn't have received a bid under those requirements. We also have hideous coats, which we voted to get rid of. An older member, the same one I spoke of, threw a fit, saying that our coats were "tradition" and changing them was an insult. We'd only had them 8 years, and nobody ever really liked them.
I do agree that older brothers/sisters CAN make good leaders, if they are willing to realize things change. Our SigEp chaper is having issues as more of the founding fathers graduate and are unhappy with the chapter changes. The same thing happened in our chapter, and led to a lot of girls DA'ing several years ago because of changes in our new member program. Change happens in a GLO, and sometimes people who have been there too long won't accept it.