[9508] in APO-L
Re: Too many pledges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Malinee Chuaprasert, Xi)
Thu Sep 29 17:40:03 1994
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 16:15:38 CDT
Reply-To: malinee@IASTATE.EDU
From: "Malinee Chuaprasert, Xi" <malinee@IASTATE.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed,
28 Sep 1994 17:40:46 -0500
<199409290659.AA07675@pop-3.iastate.edu>
> My point is that the numbers will steadily and steadily grow if you
> have more and more interest in your chapter. One of the requirements
> of being a pledge is to interview all the active brothers. Do you
> think they have time to interview 120 brothers? Some of you may
> say, our pledges DO interview 120 brothers. Okay, give it another
> year or two. Can they interview 200 brothers? I think it gets
> way out of hand. Of course, then you'll decrease the number of
> interviews they have to do. Now the pledges have only met half
> the brothers. You start to see people walk by you on the sidewalk
> with letters on whom you've never met in your life.
This doesn't have to be the case. My suggestion would be to lower the
interview requirement. But this doesn't mean that the pledges should
interview x brothers, then stop caring. They should be encouraged to at
least personally meet all the brothers. Even just getting a signature from
all the brothers, with interviews from a portion of them could work. That
way, you know they've met the brothers. And honestly, family involves more
than interviews. The best way to be a encourage that aspect of the
fraternity is to be sure people (pledges and brothers alike) are involved in
all your different activities, and to be sure to have different kinds of
activities. Not all business and projects, but fun stuff too! Sure, the
interviews help establish contact, but the contact that comes from time
spent together at an event builds bonds more.
Those are just some of my thoughts. Ignore or respond to them as you see
fit.
Yours in Leadership, Friendship, and Service,
Malinee
Fellowship Director
Xi Chapter, Iowa State University
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