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Originally Posted by emb021
We've found a witch, may we burn her?!?
Seriously, I think that's a great post. As a past pledgemaster, pledge education is something that is important to me, as I feel that a good pledge program leads to a good chapter (and fraternity). So I get a little annoyed by some people's stupid attitudes regarding pledging.
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As do I, obviously. I think people sometimes forget that the ultimate purpose of pledging is to prepare those people to be successful actives who will continue to grow and advance the chapter, and by association, APO as a whole. Any chapter whose pledge program is doing anything else is failing those pledges, their chapter, and by association, APO as a whole.
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I've never bought into the 'big pledge class/chapter' is bad idea. Tho its hard for me to see it working, based on my experiences with smaller groups, I've never rejected them out of hand.
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I advise a big chapter and I advise a small chapter. I see the same problems in both, but they're actually amplified a lot more in the small chapter. If there is a rift in the membership and people decide to take their toys and go home, it does not impact the big chapter nearly as much as it does the small chapter.
Honestly, a lot of people spend more time worrying about what other GLO's are doing instead of focusing on what makes us different than the rest. Nothing makes me sadder than to see a chapter that take their cues, mannerisms and base their activities off of what other people on their campus are doing (especially other GLOs) and spend more time trying to be accepted by those other groups as being "legitimate greeks" instead of finding new ways to appeal to the larger student body who would be genuinely interested in leadership, friendship and service.
My big chapter doesn't really care what other groups are doing, they do their own thing. My small chapter frets constantly over what everybody else is doing on campus, and goes out of their way to schedule APO activities around the events of other groups that their members are in. Guess which one has the retention problem?
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