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Been a long time since I dealt with the grades issue, but as the current President of my Alumnae Association, might be able to shed some light.
1) By senior year, many women (men too, but I will talk from sorority point of view) are becoming burned out on Greek Life. They have grown over the years, as well they should have, developed different interests, and are looking at going out into the working work, starting grad school, starting families,etc.
2) A lot of organizations (school alumni associations, greek AA's, etc) found that it takes about 10 years on average for members to reactivate their interest. By then they are out of school, are getting established and now feel that they can give back.
3) Many chapters think of these "younger" AA members and old and out of it, thus don't want the help. Many are happy when AA members lend support not only with monetary donations, but some AA's made it a routine to bring "goodies" over the the house during finals, etc.
4) If chapter presidents would talk to their local AA and let them know what kind of support they are looking for, the AA will be more than glad to help find a way to assist. My AA feels we exist not only to assist our local communities with philanthropic activities, but are there to assist the houses. We know that if the house does not survive, the AA's lose potential members and support thus leading to a downfall of the sorority as a whole.
Hope this helps a bit.
DaffyKD
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