bigs/littles

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by AlethiaSi

my grandlittle, as assistant pledgemistress, took a little. Technically, there wasn't anything against it in our constitution or bylaws. She went ahead and did it... and for the most part, that set off another series of events and she essentially ostracized herself and they didn't want much to do with her either. It's sad that people take advantage like that with such a serious lack of regard for others.

Eh..I disagree. While I do agree that it is SLIGHTLY unethical for a new member educator/pledgemaster to take a little, sometimes there is no one else. When you get new member classes that are almost as big as the number of actives, you have to make exceptions.

As for new member ed assistants, if we never allowed them to take one then they may never get one at all. In my chapter, the assistant position is generally a stepping stone to the full position. If she could not take one as an assistant, and was assistant after her first semester in [as often happens], and then in the next elections was the Pledgemaster or whatever you want ot call it, she could potentially be able to take a little the semester before she graduates - and that's it.

[AlethiaSi]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Eh..I disagree. While I do agree that it is SLIGHTLY unethical for a new member educator/pledgemaster to take a little, sometimes there is no one else. When you get new member classes that are almost as big as the number of actives, you have to make exceptions.

As for new member ed assistants, if we never allowed them to take one then they may never get one at all. In my chapter, the assistant position is generally a stepping stone to the full position. If she could not take one as an assistant, and was assistant after her first semester in [as often happens], and then in the next elections was the Pledgemaster or whatever you want ot call it, she could potentially be able to take a little the semester before she graduates - and that's it.

I see what you mean, and it makes sense... I guess with us, we just tried not to do so. It was so frowned upon that some people would take two littles at one time in order to keep it from happening. I guess in the situation with my grandlittle, there were other people that could have taken another little, but she caused such a fuss that it went through. Our assistant positions are usually a stepping stone to the higher position as well, so she may or may not have had another opportunity to take a little. She ended up going inactive after she took my great grand little anyway because she didn't get the position she wanted.

In any event, I definitely see what you mean, and it makes sense, I guess it's just relative to our own orgs...