SableCherub...it is unfortunate that some people are unable to address more substantive issues. However, as with anything in life, some are more committed and more informed than others.
I hate to admit it but there are members of organizations who are far more informed about the next stepshow or pajama jam than they are about national programs.
We are all at different places on our BGLO journey. If you frequent BGLO-specific chat forums you may know that some posters are national officers (elected or appointed) or officers at various levels within their organizations who attend meetings where decisions are made. Others are just happy to have a chance to sport their letters on campus and rarely venture to anything that does not involve the college experience. There is nothing wrong with the later for as a 19 year old neophyte I would have been hardpressed to engage in any lengthy discussion on many of Zeta's national initiatives. Don't get me wrong I knew what they were but I had not been around long enough to see many of them in action or to participate in their design or enhancement.
These boards are full of people just like the 19 year old neophtye I was two decades ago.
Continue to ask those substantive questions about programming and about our work in the communities we serve. It is those discussions that make my eyes widen (I can't do those animated things like you folks so just imagine a bright-eyed Zeta sitting at her computer). Those are the discussions that let me know that for every "I wanna be down so I can step and get all the ____ (fill in the blank)" prospective that there are some folks that should they decide to seek membership and should membership be afforded, they will be able to carry the orgs torch in service.
[This message has been edited by GiggyZ (edited June 16, 2001).]
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