[texas*princess]

Instead of a "penalty" system, why not reinforce good behavior instead?

I mentioned this a super long time ago in a similar thread, but I can't seem to find it... anyway, a few years ago, my chapter instituted what was something called "Pi Points" (or something to that effect)

There was a huge posterboard with everyone's name and columns with each of the mandatory events (meetings, study hours, etc). Each type of mandatory event had a certain number of points associated with it and for the fun events (formals, etc) only members with a certain number of points could attend. It worked really well... and towards the end, if there were sisters who were on the cusp of having enough points, they could get "bonus" points by doing things no one else wanted to do (like polish the silver.. haha) with the permission of exec and the advisors.

I think it worked well because it is a crappy feeling to get left out of something. I can recall one event that everyone was loading the buses to go to and a few girls had to stay behind at the house because they didn't make any efforts to participate in anythng else all semester.

Fines typically do not work. Remember these are college kids, and if they REALLY don't want to do something, they would much rather fork over the $25 instead.