New Members vs Actives

[33girl]

Even when I was in school, we instituted a program called "KROP" - Keep Rushing Our Pledges (now Pearls) - to deal with the post-initiation letdown. I think everyone goes through the feeling and always has of not being "special" anymore, especially if you're in a really large group and could conceivably pass your entire time as just an active, not ever holding office. IMO that really doesn't have a lot to do with how much or how little you do during pledgeship.

I think a big problem with letting pledges get away with blowing off meetings or events is that it doesn't teach them proper time management. They have all this extra time before they're initiated, and then once they ARE initiated and things are mandatory, it's like a cold shower. Better to have your amount of responsibilities decrease than increase - it can almost make you think of initiation as a punishment if it goes the other way.

[Glitter650]

Phi Sig new members are required to attend all meetings, just like an active, (they just leave for a portion of it) and are held to the same standards of sisterhood (GPA, attendance at other events, etc) and are subject to standards board and judicial process just as any other sister is as well. They can not hold office or vote however.
Of course they are given many gifts and spared some of the "drama" of the chapter, kinda like parents sheild children from some family situations.

I think getting them right into things is the best way for them to know what it's like... keeping them more seperate from the actives does them no favors in terms of them knowing what exactly to expect as an active sister.

[Tom Earp]

In reading some of the great responses, so we not as say Old Active members expect those that are newly joined to do what is considered "Their Job" to keep helping the Chapter to grow? Oh, like come to meetings and particpate in activities!

If they do not, then why did they join?

It is the old saying, get out what is put in!

New Members have to be groomed so they know what the Officers have to do!