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There are some organizational problems with this. One of the advantages of having it follow a calendar year is that the previous officer is still around while the new officer is getting their feet wet, so officer training can be ongoing. When the senior who held an office graduates in April, you lose a resource person.
For AGD, we hold regional officer training sessions (called The Leadership Conference or TLC) in February and March to train the new officers. It isn't beneficial for the old officers to attend this training after they've been officers for most of the year. It's geared toward the new officers.
I also agree it could cause housing contract problems. You need to know by February on most of the campuses in Michigan where you're living for September.
What bothers me most though, is when "outsiders" make rules for an organization. A GLO should be able to have elections whenever that GLO wants to. It's not up to Panhellenic or IFC or the university, etc. What do they care? They say that they are trying to keep seniors more active. It seems that there are other ways to accomplish this... by providing programming and activities that will keep them interested and active as they get ready to move into the next chapters of their lives. What if seniors decide not to run for office at all because they know how busy that last semester will be? How dedicated will they be to training the new officer during their last 3 weeks of school? They kept referring to people who study abroad. Is this a really common phenomena now? I don't see it in the chapters I oversee. The individual GLO should decide when elections are best for their own chapter. It's nobody elses business!
Dee
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