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Originally posted by 33girl
You can't lie and say everything they do is philanthropy...it just isn't true. Let's face it, college students will be around mixers and formals and if their culture is against it they have to find a way to deal with it.
I think the main thing to put across to the parents is that everything is VOLUNTARY and anything that makes them uncomfortable they will not be expected to do. You might also want to let them know that the ritual isn't some mystical cult ceremony or something.
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Excellent suggestion! Honesty is the best policy at all times, when it comes to dealing with the parents.
We're not ethnically diverse in the sense of vastly different cultures, for the most part, but we did have religious problems when I was Chapter Advisor. In fact, with the hopes that no one will ask any precise questions, I'll say that we camethisclose to having someone walk out
during initiation! Once we made it clear what her obligations were and weren't (yet again!), she was fine.
BTW, our EO has a letter which is to be sent out to each parent at the time of becoming a New Member. It goes a LONG way towards helping iron out any potential problems!
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