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Actually, with our chapter, we have been trying to have 1 alumnae event per month, we invite them to philanthropies, our formal, and anything else that we,as a chapter, decide to invite them to. We have guidelines set up with our local alumnae chapter (we have a REALLY strong alum chapter by us) and the alum don't come to our meetings or other events. If we invite alumnae, we have to invite ALL alumnae and, not to be rude, but why would they want to come to a meeting? As the alum chapter, they have their own meetings. We ran into problems a few years back with alum not joining the alum chapter but attending all of our events, but it's like, we're paying for them, they aren't paying dues, and they aren't supporting Phi Sig by not joining the alumnae chapter. I guess if we didn't have an alumnae chapter organized in our city, we probably would invite them to many more events. Another big thing is that we have a community college on the same campus as our university, so we had some sisters go alum because they transferred to the community college-- so we have young alumnae, like 21/22 who want to come to all of our events and it just seems like it's more trouble than it's worth. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to be alumnae next year-- i'm graduating in April, but I just think that the collegians should be able to do their thing without alumnae at everything telling us what we're doing wrong, what we could do better, or what they did when they were in!
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