[astroAPhi]

You'll have to define "de-active", because it can mean a lot of things.

We have alumni (girls who have graduated, are fifth-year seniors, or have stopped attending our school and go to other local schools) who come out to many events and meetings, except for mixers and our formal (because of insurance issues). I don't see a problem with that. These girls have put their time in with our organization and we still enjoy seeing them. They pay dues to our national board, but not us. I don't feel that they're mooching off of us.

I'm an Associate member this semester, which means I only pay national dues. I'm not supposed to come to mixers either, and I don't, unless I pay extra for them. But I will be a completely active sister next semester. I still attend most regular functions though.

If someone did something like, quit the sorority, then I wouldn't know why the heck they would still hang out with the group. I mean, if I ever quit, sure, there are some girls I would stay good friends with, but I can hang out with them outside of sorority functions. I would think if you quit an organization it would be because of some sort of social/personal conflict, or that you felt your organization wasn't living up to its beliefs, and in that case you wouldn't want to be around those people... am I making sense here?