She promised to fulfill those obligations two years earlier when her dad wasn't dead. A heart attack in his early 50s wasn't exactly something the family had been planning on. Unfortunately, her parents had been paying the bills until then, but he died during the summer, and it was too late to apply for financial aid.

Trust me, the chapter understood the situation. She was a double legacy. They just didn't care to make an exception because they were in a financial black hole.

The lack of empathy in your post gives me a lot of insight into why you seem to think of sisterhood as a "business".

We do have a thread on here about reinstating membership. Some groups will reinstate you if you pay off your debts - I think it actually happened to someone on here. But yes, you can be terminated solely for financial reasons. The frequency with which this is done varies GREATLY from campus to campus & group to group.

You can go "inactive" or "special status" in some groups which means your dues are reduced.

But when you're talking about huge chapters w/ huge houses (and even some smaller chapters/houses) everyone is usually required to live in at some point if the space is there. It's something you should know and be aware of before you go through rush, let alone pledge, let alone are initiated.

While some people can't fulfill financial obligations due to the death of a parent, others can't fulfill obligations due to a shopping addiction.

There will always be exceptions and your initial post was quite vague.

Please quit assuming. I do not think of sisterhood as a business, and that is not what I said, but if you are in a huge chapter with a house the size of a dorm, you're stupid to think there is no "business" whatsoever involved.

I have the utmost sympathy for your friend's situation, and if this chapter treated her poorly I'm sorry, but you can't give everyone a pass on financial obligations (which is what you seem to be advocating) because of what she went through.

This is really here nor there, but from my experience it is NEVER too late to get SOME kind of financial aid. And this is coming from someone who spent ALOT of time in the FAID office while I was in school.

I once needed an emergency loan for some reason or another, and was able to get $1500 in about an hour from the university. So, even though it was summer, the school doesn't close down and I think there must have been some way to get financial aid.

But, like I said- neither here nor there.

I sympathize with her situation. Maybe her chapter COULD have been a little bit more understanding- but it still goes that if you can't pay the dues, you shouldn't be allowed to retain membership. That is what financially inactive is for.

That's deep.

Co-sign. If the former member invited former sisters to come over and pick up the letters, that would be appropriate. But just showing up uninvited seems presumptuous. It's the same reason it wouldn't be OK for the former member to just show up at the house or at the GLO's social events.

I think the lack of empathy was with that chapter. 33Girl doesn't know the situation the way you do, and you are give info in bits and pieces as you see fit to make your case. She was merely talking about the rules and regulations.

In the NPHC, if that were to happen, we would be having fundraisers to help our member out.

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HAHA HA HA HA.

You go to People's College of Law, don't you?

A-M-E-N-D-M-E-N-T

I worked financial aid and there are clear deadlines for federal and alternative loans. Emergency loans are based on institutional deadlines and fund availability. So, at the institutions I worked at, we did have students who completely missed the boat on financial aid and emergency loans.

The sooner the better is a good rule of thumb. Most schools' registration and records drop your registration if you do not pay the cashier's office out of pocket (including payment plan) or are unable to show the cashier's office that you have funds preapproved and on their way from an outside source. If you have yet to apply for federal or alternative loans then you technically don't have money preapproved and on the way. If there are no emergency funds available to loan students, there is nothing that can be done.

Blahzey blah...you're right, neither here nor there.

Or, the person would have a yard sale and visit the pawn shop.

holy major hijack batman.

GL Mods, can we split this thread please?

PM I just received from our buddy GoneGreek..

"I'm surprised you didn't pick on the "anonymouse" quote either. As a moderator, you're a representative of your sorority. Do you really think going around and picking on people for misspellings is mature and respectful? Or are you a bitchy, intellectual snob who thinks that they are superior to others? The quote at the bottom of your posts would have me think so "

I <3 GC.

Either she is very judgemental, or she doesn't get the joke, or both.