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Originally posted by SapphireSphinx9
as an alum and now an advisor, i understand that the alum should inform the chapter that they will come to the meetings.
but i still have a problem with voting the alum in. in my eyes, it's VERY disrespectful.
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There was something on Mentoring in the last couple of months about voting alum in. It's definitely in writing that alum are supposed to be voted in to meetings but they are also allowed voice. Voting them in or not - either way no big deal to me.
Now I definitely think alum shouldn't be allowed to show up without notifying the chapter within a reasonable amount of time. This will allow the chapter to make any necessary preparations, or to even tell the alum maybe it isn't a good time depending on what's happening (ie, elections, fireside, etc) and would it be possible for the sister to come to another meeting.
The other thing is if an alum does attend a meeting (or other event) they should be there for the whole meeting!!!! They shouldn't show up for a short amount of time then bail when they've done what they need to do. Something like this happened where we had about 8 alum come to a meeting - they stuck around for the portion they were interested in at the beginning of the meeting then asked to be excused from the rest. There was a party going on that they wanted to go to. Now imagine in a small chapter of less then 35 sisters what happens when 8 people just up and leave a ritual. It kind of felt disrepectful to me.
Carolyn
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