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Originally Posted by Kevin
If you paid for the stuff and your chapter is requesting it back, insist that they pay you for it.
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This is a good point. If you paid for items yourself (but since you were a new member, I don't know how much of that you would have paid for) you have a right to ask for reimbursement for extras -- especially clothing -- that you paid for.
Unfortunately, anything you paid for out of your new member fees (this includes any books/manuals, your new member pin, your bid day shirt, etc) is considered official sorority property and you cannot be reimbursed for these items. In the case of your new member pin, for example, you don't really
buy the pin from your sorority, rather, you rent it. Upon termination of your new member period (this should all be outlined in your national policies and local bylaws) you're required to relinquish all the stuff that you paid for out of official fees back to the sorority chapter.