If you could change one thing...

[CASIGKAP]

Originally posted by 33girl
You might want to ask collegians who experience it how "fun" it is to have their chapter closed and are no longer able to participate in collegiate Greek life. And let THEM decide if multiple offices are truly the stress you make it out to be. What a horrible, callous thing to post.

I agree with you here. I recently spoke to a girl who literally went through initiation & Order at the same time. It's sad to see girls join & have to become alum right away. They should benefit from at least a full year of Greek life if not more. At our school, one particular sorority, AOII, was having trouble getting their #'s up. However, their national organization did not shut them down. Instead, they gave them full support & were able to do an awesome job recruiting in the spring. If more organizations took the time & effort that AOII gave their girls instead of shutting them down, we wouldn't have so many closures.

[aephi alum]

There are four big things I would like to see changed...

Expansion: I'd like to see more of it. Our last new chapter (brand-new, not a reactivation of a dormant chapter) was mine - founded in 1995. That's nearly ten years ago. It's great when dormant chapters are reactivated, but it's also important to break new ground.

Alum Initiation: I wish we offered this. I've seen so many great AIs and PNAMs here on GC, and I know a couple of women who would make great AEPhi AIs, and it pains me to think of all the great potential AIs we are missing out on.

Alum Structure: There isn't one. I wish I had been informed, when I was a senior, of ways that I could become an active alumna. All I get is the occasional mailing asking for donations - which is addressed to me in my maiden name and goes to my parents' house, despite my numerous attempts to make sure nationals has my current name and address.

Website: We need one. The current website looks like some high school kid put it together in six hours. There is a redesign in the works, but it's been in the works for about four years. Plus, the sorority hired someone to do it, rather than approaching sisters (such as myself) who are web designers and who would have done it on a volunteer basis. grrr...

Okay... I'll stop griping now.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally posted by aephi alum
There are four big things I would like to see changed...

Expansion: I'd like to see more of it. Our last new chapter (brand-new, not a reactivation of a dormant chapter) was mine - founded in 1995. That's nearly ten years ago. It's great when dormant chapters are reactivated, but it's also important to break new ground.

Although AEPhi doesn't have many chapters, they have some locations that Sigma WISHES we had: University of Florida, UCLA, AND Ohio State.

Some girls from Hillel here are contemplating forming an AEPhi chapter here @ Kent. We'll see how that turns out.

[queequek]

I wish we were less selective to install our Charges at, not just in super good schools. Also I disagree with our 157+ years unwritten policy to have no more than 32 active Charges at a time.

On the other hand, I am proud that some of our strongest Charges are still active in very good schools, like in Brown, William & Mary, Dartmouth, Amherst and Stanford (all anti-Greek schools with long traditions of Greek life). And not many GLOs have established all 8 Ivy League schools at a point of time.

Also I wish we were considering the expansion more in the South, not only in New England/Virginia/NY area. I think Southern schools also have a lot of things to offer, but it is hard to convince older Ivy graduate brothers about this.

Our Charge establishment was controversial in 1909, since nobody wanted to start a new Charge in an agricultural college, eventhough we already had established U of Wisconsin, U of Michigan, U of Illinois and U of Indiana Charges at that time in the midwest. Good thing that there was a brother from Iowa that went school in Cornell, and he helped us to gain our Charge in 1919, after 10 years of Colonial period (and lots of rejections ) Thanks a lot, bros!

[CarolinaCutie]

I'd like to see Phi Mu expand to big schools in the North and West... this includes some recolonizations of chapters that have bit the big one. We have ONE chapter in California, with no surrounding chapters at ALL. I know that they are actually a really good chapter, but I just think they'd like someone to hang out with on State Day Phi Mu is currently at a LOT of smaller schools outside of the South.

Also more support for struggling chapters. I can think of a couple chapters off the top of my head that I don't think are receiving enough help. I also could rattle off a list of people I know that are fairly bitter about their chapter being shut down. I know this could be for a myriad of reasons, but something isn't right.

[MysticCat]

I was about to say that our website needed a massive overhaul and to add that I had heard that one was in the works. But then I went to our website (Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity) only to discover that the overhaul has happened. It looks like stuff is still being added and tweaked, but it is a vast improvement!

So I don't know what I'd change now.