I need some advice. We've got a weird situation here.
Our chapter has come to dread visits from recent alumnae (the older ones are okay, I'm talking about ones that just graduated a year or two ago) because they rearrange our chapter room, leave a huge mess for us to clean up, and show up drunk in their letters to public events in the middle of the day. We could lose recognition from the college over this, not to mention our charter because our nationals has strict rules about alcohol.
Last night, our alumnae relations chair sent out an e-mail to our alumnae informing them of our upcoming Pearl Ball (our spring formal). At the very end it says, "If you plan on coming and staying in the chapter room, please do not disrespect it. It is just as much yours as it is ours."
Just those two little sentences sparked irate e-mails from several of our alumnae, telling us about how we don't respect them and one even went so far as to say she won't support us in anything we do anymore. In my opinion, we subtly addressed a situation in a mature manner, by not pointing fingers or making any direct accusations. Now it seems like we're in this big war between the alumnae and the actives. I absolutely hate the fact that it's like this, I mean aren't alumnae supposed to support the chapter? We have always welcomed them here for visits, and now just because we asked them not to disrespect us when they do visit, it seems like they hate us.
How should we handle this? Because right now, our alumnae relations aren't looking so good...
Actives and Alumni not getting along
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