Housing Issue

[Allie]

Hey all,

I'm really looking for some input and great ideas to a problem. To give you all a little history my sorority is Sigma Alpha, and we are not greek, we are professional. Over the 25 years that Sigma Alpha has been around, we know have 45-50 chapters, across the US.

Being non greek and professional leads most chapters to hold meeting on campus. But a few chapters have houses.

Alpha, Beta, and Gamma (my chapter) I know for sure have houses. All of a sudden our national board is proposing a by-law and constintutional change to charge all chapters with a house $500. So far nobody has been able to answer what this money is going towards, and the girls in my chpater seem to look at it as a tax.

I was told by one of my chpater officers not to ask our national board rep questions because she is compiling a list that she would lke answered and will present the material to us as a chapter. But our national convention is quickly approaching, and I want to make sure that if this money doesn't provide us with insurance, or anything that we are not being treated unfairly because we have a house.

My question for you all is... is this type of situational normal? What do you suggest we do? How she we go about contacting all of the other chapters to help back us so at national convention this amendment doesn't pass?

I will say thank you ahead of time Please help a sister out here....