Spinoff: New Members Holding Positions

[NebraskaDelt]

It's also nice to have a new member officer who has no preconcieved notions of how past officers of the position have done things. A blank slate encourages new ideas and allows the member to take on the office as their own instead of running it like the last guy/gal did.

I wouldn't encourage a new member to president, but some things can easily be taken care of by anyone in the org and it doesn't take a knowledge of ritual to be able to do it. Philanthropy is philanthropy, intramurals is intramurals and fundraising is fundraising. You don't need to know anything about the ritual in order to run these sort of positions.

[KSUViolet06]

In Tri Sigma, you must be initiated to take a position in the chapter. The president must have previously served on Officer Board. We've had newer initiates in positions, and it has worked out pretty well.

[flirt5721]

In AXiD you must be an Initiated member to hold an office. New members are not allowed to hold any positions. Newly Initiated member can hold office. My chapter has had newly initiated member hold Exec. and non exec offices. It has worked out and it hasn't. It just depends on the girls and if they are really good leaders or not. Sometimes one might think that some one is good but it turns out that they are not.

[KatieKate1244]

In DZ you have to be initiated to hold the office of President, but a new member can fill in other position. We actually had a new member become our VP of Membership this past election (she was also initiated two weeks later), and she's been doing an excellent job.

[Buttonz]

In SDT, you must be an initated sister before holding postions.

Daisy, you know the story of my pledge sister and myself. We were intiated in May, that Sept, we held 5 out of 8 E-board postions, and tons of g-board postions. I'd say for the two of us it worked out pretty well, because we were fresh blood, smart enough to listen to theo lder sisters and take advice, but with enough new ideas and thoughts that we wound up holding President and VP the year after. After that...well that's a idfferent story.

The reason why we were allowed to do this is because we had a very small chapter, and a lot of hte sisters that were active were trying ot geto ut of school and taking on large course loads. Normally, we woudlnt' let this happen and discouraged new sisters from taking on more then 1 e-board postion at a time.

[AGDLynn]

In Alpha Gam, you have to be initiated to hold office but it works pretty well for us.
To be President, you have to have been a Chapter Council officer before and normally be a member of the Junior class (school wise). To be Property Coordinator, you have to have lived on the hall at some point. I'm almost positive you have to have gone through Recruitment on the members' side to be VP Recruitment.

Normally we have Initiation early in November and elections mid-November.

Unfortunately there's always the chance of losing an officer or two at the beginning of January or the next Fall.

Over the years, I've seen newly initated members do a terrific job and somtimes the "older" members not, lol. But it evens out.

[Scandia]

This may have changed since I was in college.

But in Alpha Phi Omega, though newly initiated brothers could hold staff positions, if a brother with seniority ran for one vs. a neophyte, the senior brother would automatically get it.