Just a General Question

[Zillini]

As an advisor I have never had a soph Pres in this chapter. I have known several at other chapters over the years who have done bang up jobs. It all depends on the candidate. My org has a stipulation that a Pres candidate must have served on Exec previously, but that can be waived with Inatl permission. We had to do this one year when practically our entire Exec was made up of seniors. The two who weren't didn't run for Pres the following year.

[ComradesTrue]

We, too, had the Jan-Dec terms, which were great.

It certainly was not the norm for a sophomore to serve as president, but there was another NPC chapter on our campus that did elect a sophomore one year. This caught everyone by surprise, but she served well and earned tons of respect from the entire greek community. She then served a second term as president the following year.

So, to echo many others here... it was certainly a major exception on our campus, which had pledge classes of 40ish. But... if a very special individual came along, clearly there was at least one chapter open to the idea.

[ADqtPiMel]

Originally Posted by Zillini

As an advisor I have never had a soph Pres in this chapter. I have known several at other chapters over the years who have done bang up jobs. It all depends on the candidate. My org has a stipulation that a Pres candidate must have served on Exec previously, but that can be waived with Inatl permission. We had to do this one year when practically our entire Exec was made up of seniors. The two who weren't didn't run for Pres the following year.

The chapter I advise now has a sophomore president and she is really very good. She had been an officer previously, although not on Exec.

I didn't even know the rule about Presidential candidates needing to serve on Exec until I was on the slating committee following my term as EVP senior year. My chapter had deferred recruitment (so no one could take positions until their 2nd year since elections were in December and rush was in January) and was pretty large (around 200) and therefore was very, very competitive for positions - it would have been unheard of for a sophomore to be on Exec.