hi everyone,
I'm the New Member Educator for Rho chapter, and I've had to deal with a lot of dislike for the Key & Sapphire system, most specifically, assigning Keys, sapphires and Kores right before bid night. To be perfectly honest, we tweaked it a little bit (legally though -- the president, house advisor and TC said it was fine :-)) so that they received their Key Sisters a bit later. (If any Kappa wants to hear about it, feel free to e-mail me at KMD987@aol.com.) I was very determined to do this because when I was a New Member, my Key sister was assigned to me because she never had one before. I am a very enthusiastic, energetic person, and she was very quiet and, well, ready to graduate and leave Kappa behind. She was very nice, but we had little or no relationship and she didn't really help me foster my relationship with Kappa. Thankfully, another chapter member kind of "filled in" and spoiled me with "Welcome to KKG" posters, poems, notes in my mailbox and the like. However, some of my other pledge sisters were not as lucky. I truly love Kappa and I'm very loyal, but I think the traditional Big/Little program was pulled for the wrong reasons. As I understand, there is a task force at Nationals that is discussing right now if they should reinstall the Big/Little things. Okay, whew, what a posting! Thanks all.
~Kelly
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