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I am still around occasionally, although I don't post. I have found this board to be a good resource.
My story...
After spending all of last spring emailing headquarters outlining problems I saw and begging for support, I was pretty much ignored. I really thought I was going to resign my position and be done with the organzation as a whole. At our convention this summer, in front of the collegiate officers in attendance and the officers from headquarters, I made it VERY clear that this chapter was in trouble and needed help. I think the collegiates were in shock, even though I said that I was going to do this. I laid everything on the line with everyone at our meeting and made it clear I wasn't going to tolerate being ignored anymore and that the chapter needed to change. The good news is that we got new area officers and they were much more invested in helping out my chapter. They were very committed to sending in reinforcements during the semester (and did in fact do that). I left convention feeling renewed in my position and felt that everyone (including the collegiates) were on the same page.
Due to circumstances beyond her control, the new member educator needed to resign and leave school. A person was appointed in the iterim and she was a nightmare. She had planned a program that was nothing but hazing! When I told her that this plan needed to be changed to reflect the organizations new member plan and involve no activities that were against the law. She yelled at me and told me that every other chapter on campus was doing these kinds of things and that our chapter needed to participate too! Much to my dismay, she ended up being elected once school reconviened. Luckily, our headquarters was extremely involved this fall and the other members of the exec board realized that if the NME did what she planned to do, that the chapter would be closed. She was kept in check, thankfully!
We are in the midst of an officer change. With the actions of the NME this fall, the rest of the exec board realized that there were lots of problems in the chapter. They took some steps to make some changes. I just hoped they passed this information on to the new board!
Let's hope for a better year!
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