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Originally posted by greeklawgirl
I know that sisters might not agree with Alpha Gam's policy on this, but unless its changed, we have an obligation to operate within the guidelines that IC and Ritual sets out for us.
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And how do we go about getting this changed? Personally, I don't see why there is a policy on this at all, or why it doesn't allow for a Pearl Pal/Squirrel Sister/Bid-Day Buddy (that's what ours was) or whatever you want to call it. We really only had our bid-day buddies for a week or so, pretty much just for the first pledge ceremony, and then we were assigned a sister-mother that we felt closer to. (Sometimes it was your bid-day buddy, and sometimes it wasn't. In fact, we usually tried not to match someone with a bid-day buddy that would become her sis-mom because we wanted to encourage closer relationships with other sisters. A lot of the time, we would have the bid-day buddies be seniors, and sis-moms were usually juniors, so that the new members got to know more people in the senior class.) I think it's a good idea to allow the new members to get acclimated to the chapter and get to know the sisters better before lumping them with a sis-mom and making them feel like they were just stuck in a family that they may not necessarily want to be in.