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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
Thanks for the clarification. 
"Terminate membership" to me meant expelling her after she's been initiated. |
I can only speak specifically for my NPC group, but you can definitely be terminated if your attendance is a problem and/or you stop paying dues. And it is an actual termination - your name is crossed out in the chapter's roll you signed at initation and everything.
Its not an "early alum" status for not being able to pay your dues - its a removal, period.
Later in life, you can apply for reinstatement, but I don't know what's involved in that process...I don't personally know anyone who has done it.
(Of course, if sisters are having trouble paying their dues and/or with other life situations, the chapter would try to work with them prior to that. But if no solution can be reached through the appropriate means, terminated membership is the final result.)
BTW - its not a matter of simply going inactive (even just for a semester), because the chapter only has a limited number of spots per semester available for inactive members. If you don't apply and get approved for inactive status before the spots fill up for any given semester, there's nothing that can be done for you.