Sorority SOS

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

1. Your sorority did not prevent your members from receiving bids from other sororities. RFM doesn’t work that way. Had the other orgs they preffed placed them high on their list, they would’ve received bids from those orgs. The members who think your org prevented them from getting their dream bids need to be set straight.
2. Most chapters have an eclectic membership. Everyone is not model gorgeous, everyone is not from the same city, everyone is not a nursing major…you get the point, yet somehow they get along. As you said, everyone won’t be best friends with everyone else, but they, at the least, tolerate each other.

From what you wrote, people have reached out to your executive officers, and chapter advisors, and nothing has changed. I suggest contacting your national headquarters. You need some national officers to visit your chapter to assess the problem and come up with a plan for your membership to follow. If you know of other members who are noticing the same issues, enlist them to contact your headquarters too.

In the meantime, could you and your friends within the chapter plan and implement some sisterhood events? Ask permission from your exec officers. If there is already a sisterhood chairperson, ask to work with her to form a sisterhood committee and work together.

Good luck.

Thank you for your input, I truly appreciate it. I myself know those two things to be true, but I wish more of my sisters did as well–not that it would necessarily solve everything. HQ is planning to send an officer towards the end of the spring 2023 semester (just a routine check-in), so while we'll have a while to wait for that, at least it's on the radar, and gives me and my friends time to prepare what we have to say.

We seem to have an overabundance of sisterhood events as it is. I don't think planning more will help, since we have an attendance rate of approx. 10-15% (on a good day...) but I like your idea of forming a sisterhood committee. Hopefully I can get some friends on board.

Maybe this is an impossible question, but what do you think can be done about the sheer amount of disagreement between sisters? We are long past bonding events, seeing as the issue here isn't not knowing each other–it's not liking each other. I personally think we can't necessarily 'right the wrongs' of past member classes and gloss over their negative relationships, but moving forward we can try to recruit a more cohesive new member class and encourage positive relationships between sisters. Now comes the question of how....
Cheers.