Happy New Year!!!
This is a GREAT topic!!!!! I was just talking to my soror about this last month. The thing that I find suprising is that how people would scrape, and do what ever it takes to pay the money to join (AKA, DST, SGRho, etc...) and then they become inactive sometimes RIGHT after they pledge while they are still in school, or right after they graduate. Now I will say that every one has thier reasons....(money problems, relocating, etc), but what I don't understand is people that STAY inactive. Plus is it just me or do you find that the people that join alum chapters tend to stay active than those who join undergrad???? Now I am still in school and I made a promise NEVER to become inactive. Now although I am saying this now, only God knows what is instore for my future especially since the economy is so bad right now and jobs are so hard to find.
We also need to realize that there are some people who join these orgs for the wrong reason.
And because of that, that will cause them to become inactive right after they join. A person must have the burning desire to WANT to remain active. And if you can't afford to become active through a local chapter than you can still be active Nationally through Member-at-Large, or as they AKA's state General Member!!!
That's just my 13cents