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Originally posted by kappaloo
Sounds like my chapter. I come from an extremely professional school where time-commitments can be extremely heavy. Official commitments are kept to a minimum for new members as such. However, my NM educator made the effort to get us together other times (a lot), but since it wasn't required we always felt okay with saying "I really can't today, I have too much work to do".
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That's one of my chapter's biggest problems. Everyone has a million things to do (or doesn't, and makes up stuff to get out of thigns), and as a result our attendance for events is about 40%. We aren't a big chapter, and all of the decision-making falls in the hands of one or two people (then someone complains about it). As a result of our being extremely lax when faced with another commitment, the bond isn't as strong as it could be (or was when the pledge class before mine was in charge, where they practically did "pledge" in the traditional sense).
I wish there was a way to say, "okay...this will be one of your top priorities, after class and an on-campus job", and the new members would take it seriously. By missing new member education, they're missing out on a lot of what being in the house means. Because we're a laid-back school, and our Greek system is in turn laid-back, sometimes Greek groups feel like they're more of a club than a fraternity or sorority.
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