Your thoughts on AI: discussion goes here.

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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Don't forget to add that some meet women on the internet and get help/sponsored that way so they can shop, but it will end up looking like the PNAM was sought after by a member.

Wow, that is a problem I hadn't considered. It's very surprising that a sister would misrepresent to or even for any reason recommend to her sorority a woman who contacted her online about AI. Shady.

Also, thanks for your post AChiOSnap, it helped me understand your point of view quite a bit.

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I don't want an AI Forum b/c AI members are sisters and don't need to feel like they need a separate section. There isn't any such thing as a "road to AI"-- when you are offered membership, post in the appropriate NPC Forum to be welcomed as a new sister. We'll celebrate everything to come, including initiation, together.

I can't find them presently, but I recall a few posts, I believe by ariesrising and a few other Alumnae Initiates, saying that they wanted to retain a forum to discuss their 'roads to membership' after the fact and share in the common experience of initating as a non-collegian. So I think that you saying now that AI members don't need to feel in favor of a separate section is kind of disrespecting these women and their feelings on the issue.

Obviously I'm not as well apprised of the history of this forum as most of the posters here, and I know this has been suggested in this thread many times, but it REALLY seems like following the same route as the NPHC forums (immediately quashing any threads requesting help with AI) would help to maintain a place where Alumnae Initiates (who have already been given an initiation date or been initiated) can discuss their common bond, but without the recruitment/sorority shopping/indiscreet trainwreck it's been in the past. There also seem to be a lot of people in this thread who are passionate enough about AI and active/well respected enough members of the forum that they would make excellent moderators of a forum that were run in this manner.