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Originally Posted by SigmaNuAlum
Forgive for my ignorance! I'm a Sigma Nu alumnus, have even worked for my national office, but am completely in the dark on the AI thing. I'm familiar with it only because of what I've read on here.
Question, I guess, is why would someone join a sorority after college? There seems to be no earning of membership. I'm not referring to hazing, or any "rites of passage", but I remember as a pledge I felt I earned my membership by learning history, brother info., participating in philanthropy, fundraisers, etc...
I think I would be pissed if someone wanted to join as a college graduate. Why not while undergrad? Would seem to be a lot of shadiness that comes along with someone not wanting to join while in school, but wanting to upon graduation!
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Coming from a local... we obviously didn't have AI and I didn't even know what it was until reading about it here. However, we did initiate two members under honorary sister status. This is similar to AI and I didn't realize it until recently. One was a member of another local at another school that closed and was not going to reopen. Another was a graduate student, who at the time, was contributing significant amounts of time and effort to our organization. We thought we were doing the right thing, however as some of you know from another thread, the second AI (for lack of a better word) did not turn out so great. I suppose that is the risk that one takes.
I think that AI has a place within an organization that is open to it, and approaches certain members for whatever reason. It should be used sparingly and not as a way to allow members to have letters after the time that they should have.
[With our first AI member, she had already pledged another organization and was able to quickly assimilate into our "way of life" however, the second AI was not able to. She did not understand how things ran, or a simple code of sisterhood. She was in it for the popularity basically (and i'm not just saying this because I'm bitter, she's even admitted this to other sisters). I think the process of new membering enables members to understand... what sisterhood is all about ]
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