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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
In those huge chapters, they may need to find a way to sort of transition them to half-alumnae status to keep them involved without asking more of them than they're willing to do. For instance, if they lived in, held an office, participated in X number of events over the last 2 years, always paid their bills on time, was never on academic probation (there are a litany of options here singly or in combination), then they only have to attend chapter once a month as a senior, or they don't have to attend any social functions, or they aren't obliged to do service hours, or whatever would keep them in the fold without overwhelming their senior year. Those of us who were collegiate members for 4 years and lived in for 3 can certainly appreciate the appeal of not having so much chapter responsibility as you prepare for graduation and the real world.
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This is an OK idea, as long as it doesn't evolve to 1) pushing out women who DO want to be involved senior year/making senior year involvement "weird" 2) causing women to overload just for the sole purpose of being able to blow off everything senior year and still call themselves sisters.
Not only that, there are majors in which your junior year classes can often be WAY more time consuming than senior year classes, judging by how you're able to schedule things.
I'd rather see this as something chapters initiate locally rather than nationally mandated - the chapter that has pledge classes of 100 every year may find some merit in this. The chapter that has pledge classes of 10 will be crippled by it.
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