[Xylochick216]

I know a lot of our "punishments" were cleaning out our storage units that held all of our Alpha Chi stuff, setting up for initiation, requiring help with philantropic events (i.e. volunteering at the domestic abuse shelter, helping at the thrift store that supports the domestic abuse shelter, baking/buying candy for any awareness tables we had set up), etc. Basically they just did things that were necessary to the functioning of our chapter that a lot of people don't volunteer to do.

And I agree about not punishing the excused absences. Like it was said above, what's the point of having excused and unexcused if they're both punished? Just be strict in what is excused (weddings, births, deaths) and what isn't.