Depledging (HELP!!)

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I am so seriously against the shorter new member periods! While there were a lot of good PR reasons for shortening these periods, the bottom line is that the new members never seem to learn as much about their own GLO or the NPC.

I'm not suggesting how long the New Member period should be, but two months is the minimum I would suggest, 10-12 weeks isn't out of the question. I keep hearing how the New Members have to learn so much, so fast; they're so overwhelmed; they're pushed from one topic to another too quickly - yet no one suggests the ONE THING that would change this. Before I was initiated - before I could pass our chapter's initiation test, I had to know not only the names of every NPC GLO, but what their pin and New Member pin looked like. Okay, we only lost a half-point for those not on our campus, but we still had to know about it. We had a Junior Panhel, and we were informed!

This year alone, three New Members of varying sororities were unhappy-to-questioning their bids, and I advised them all to give it a week. A WEEK!?!?! I was asking 18-year-olds to make a decision that would affect their lives in a week! How I longed to tell them to take a month to decide if that GLO was right for them, so they can truly make an informed decision.

We've taken a crockpot problem and thrown it into the microwave!

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I COMPLETELY agree! I remember at KD's 2003 Convention our National President said that since the New Member periods were shortened the rate of resignations (across the NPC) had gone up something crazy like 700 percent.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I COMPLETELY agree! I remember at KD's 2003 Convention our National President said that since the New Member periods were shortened the rate of resignations (across the NPC) had gone up something crazy like 700 percent.

It would shock me to hear that the rate of resignations was anything less!

We're taking a lot of 18-year-old women who had never considered sorority, or ones who are focused on a family sorority or two, sending through a one week Recruitment, letting them making a mostly emotional decision, and then only giving them 6 weeks to change their minds. The miracle is that more women don't deactivate!