Hello, from MuMu alum in NoVa

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Originally Posted by GMUAPhiOAdvisor

Well, silly or not, since the advisor has been emailing the president of the chapter, the "tone" of the president's emails to me have changed a great deal. This advisor is a faculty advisor, as well as the advisory chair, so when the chair position was mentioned to me, I thought it was because there wasn't one. Now, I find out there is, and I'm sure it's been mentioned between the president and current advisory chair. This advisor also told me herself that she hadn't been regularly involved with the chapter, so maybe she feels like I'm trying to push her out. Not the case, of course, but sometimes people read into things. I just want to be an active advisor and do what is best for the chapter.

The chapter determines who is to be their advisors and who is to be their advisory chair. Its usually a good idea for chapters to 're-elect' their advisors each year. This would also be the appropriate time to determine who will be thier advisory chair.

And as I said, its also a good idea for chapters to make it clear what their needs and expectations are from their advisors (want advisors to attend events, want atleast one advisor at each event, etc) as a group and individually (make use of specific skills, want advisor X to advise the Treasurer, advisor Y to advise pledge master, etc)

Sounds like prehaps your Section Chair may want to look into this and help clear things up.

As for the "ritual" there is an oath that's taken by the advisor, similar to the initiation oath....my application is on file with National, along with my membership number, so that's taken care of.
I guess we'll see what happens after this Sunday.

There is no oath taken by advisors, other then what may be given by the officers when they are sworn in. This is separate from and totally apart from the Initiation Ceremony. If this chapter wants to swear you in as an advisor, that's fine, but they should not refer to this as an initation.

Such a swearing in is separate from the pledge & initiation rituals. It can be done as part of these, thus ensuring that most of the chapter is present, etc. It can be done at a chapter meeting (useful if you aren't going to do a ritual any time soon).