Seating Charts at meeting

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Why are some members not allowed to vote?

If not, why are they even there?

Being to regimented can become tedious.

They as OTW said, President, VP and Treasure should be at the head table and the rest be seated in chairs in front of them, or around a table if it seats all voting members only!

Because they are still members who have lost voting privileges for one reason or another - grades, finances, etc. Losing your vote is not the same as losing your membership.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

Because they are still members who have lost voting privileges for one reason or another - grades, finances, etc. Losing your vote is not the same as losing your membership.

Then that means they are not on suspension?

If they are suspensions, then why are they there?

Granted, they are still members, but under suspension and have no voting rights or should be there?

Is this correct? You let suspended Members enjoy all of the rights of full members?

[33girl]

They don't have the privileges of voting or maybe other things (like social privileges) but it's still their duty as a member to attend chapter meetings and know what's going on. Every group is different.

Suspended members would be something quite different and a lot more serious than someone who is on academic or financial probation. Those are two reasons for not being able to vote. The only time I can think someone would be "suspended" is if she's up for a termination vote that week, or something.

[KSUViolet06]

We always sat in order of initiation. If there were new members present, they would be seated between active sisters so the actives could answer any questions they had.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

We sit in initiation order and we do have "socializing" problems even though we know that isn't allowed. I'm guilty of it too...that's sometimes the only time of the week I see most of my sisters. But mostly the meeting still runs smoothly because we're quiet or someone will remind us, nicely, to stfu so we can get done on time.

As for voting, why don't you just make sure the advisors have a number of how many are in good standing. Then if they have a total vote count above that number they can make the chapter repeat the entire process until whomever is voting when they shouldn't gives up.