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Form at the expense of content
Honestly, I feel that this kind of badge defense might be an example of venerating a symbol ahead of what the symbol might stand for.
Keepers of the Key members have spent $17,000 to reclaim pins. Meanwhile, Kappas all over the country are busting their butts to raise money a dollar at a time for rehabilitation charities like the Children's Miracle Network, battered women's shelters, etc. Even if Keepers of the Key wanted to spend it to benefit their sisterhood directly, $17,000 is a year of college tuition for a needy Kappa or a new roof for a Kappa house.
I personally do not understand the choice of supporting the sorority by giving thousands of dollars to pin dealers instead of to the sorority or its foundation. There is no symbol of my ideals, up to and including the American flag, that I would spend money to keep out of "the wrong hands" if I could spend it instead on actually furthering those ideals. In the end, the pin is a piece of gold -- it only has meaning because of the real sisterhood it represents and the real help those sisters offer to one another and to the community.
Kappas, it's a free country, and I'm not trying to tell you that you can't spend your money how you want or place whatever value on your pins that you want to. And I fully realize that my opinion about "pin rescue" puts me squarely in the minority on GC. I'm just saying that this is an allocation of resources that mystifies me.
Ivy
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