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Originally Posted by BootyKBG
The Nu chapter of KBG at Franklin and Marshall decided as active members that they wanted to affiliate with a panhellenic sorority. They had been in discussion about this with nationals on and off for maybe a year before they formally requested disaffiliation. Several years back our nationals was weak and supported by ONE active alumna who didn't ask for help until other former executive members stepped in. Since then we have continued to grow and strengthen as a national organization.
Because of this weak time period, said national alumna who was serving as sole board member with poor judgement suggested the possibility of a merger to the chapters during the annual convention. Our strongest chapters at that time took this back with them, dispite the fact that during that same convention an entirely new national board came on and began the revising process.
Nu initially began asking for items that we simply couldn't or wouldn't supply, such as buying them a house. We had 5 chapters with extremely low dues compared to many NPC sororities, and because of this that is something that constitutionally we just don't provide. After much discussion the chapter decided that buying "stuff they could find their letters on" was more important that honoring their history and the support that KBG had provided up til that time, including the efforts of re-recognition by campus.
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BootyKBG, I do have a PM and I would love to talk about how this confusion with the us “asking for items [you] simply couldn’t or wouldn’t supply, such as buying a house” started because, with all due respect, that was never a reason for our disaffiliation. Here’s why:
(1) In Fall 2005, after the Tri-Sigma chapter on our campus closed, their landlord offered to rent us their (very, very nice) house. So we could have had a house, had we wanted it. We said no, because there simply wasn’t enough interest among sisters for it. I should point out that not all the Greek organizations on our campus have houses, and since we always had several sisters willing to lend apartments or houses for sorority activities, we never needed one.
(2) When we began disaffiliation talks with KBG national, we already knew the school was working to create a “Greek Row” where all the Greek organizations would be moving into houses owned by the college. Granted we didn’t know exactly when this would occur, but we knew it was in the near future. So we would have had no reason to ask you to buy us a house.
(3) By Fall 2007, when we were still in disaffiliation talks with KBG Nationals (which began Spring 2006, if anyone’s interested), we knew that we would have a house, through the school, in Fall 2008. So, again, there was no reason to ask you to buy us one.
(4) And finally … we just aren’t that shallow. And given what has been said about us on this thread, I will be explaining that. I’d just like to start by saying none of this is meant to insult BootyKBG or her board. I understand she’s very devoted to her organization and is working very hard for it. But, as she’s admitted, the previous administration … not so much.
Basically, each member of a KBG chapter is supposed to pay $80 a semester in membership dues. In return, the national organization says the chapter will receive annual visits from a member of national, leadership workshops, an updated website, a magazine, and the chapter’s president and national liaison go to an annual convention.
So we paid our dues. And the website hasn’t been updated since 2004 (I know they’re working on it, but the fact remains it’s been over four years), we’ve never seen a KBG magazine, the first visit a national representative ever made to this campus was this fall when we were trying to disaffiliate (not even to initiate our chapter — our founders went to them), and while convention did happen, unless “leadership workshops” refers specifically to what goes on at convention, we’ve never had them.
Additionally, we had complaints regarding the speed with which we received materials. For example, our bylaws are from 1998 (our chapter was founded in 2002) and, just speaking personally, I wrote a $140 check for a pin when I joined in Spring 2005. In Fall 2006, completely fed up, I asked that the check just be cancelled and put toward my dues because I seriously didn’t think I’d ever see the thing.
So we didn’t disaffiliate because we were asking KBG for extraneous things they couldn’t possibly provide us. We asked to disaffiliate because they weren’t providing us with what they said they would provide us with — but they were still taking our money. And whenever we asked, we were told “it’s coming, don’t worry, it’ll be fixed/up/here soon.” But it never was.
And once again, that’s not meant to insult BootyKBG or the current KBG nationals. And we certainly wish them the best of luck with their future colonizations and all future endeavors.
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