That just made me cry
It's so sad, and I know I would have been really sad if that happened to my chapter or even another chapter here on campus.
I really feel like the 'probation' terms were *extremely* harsh on the chapter and that is most likely why they walked away.
Someone mentioned earlier that they felt the poster was 'inappropriate' for Chi Omega, but I don't really see how that is. While the poster plainly admitted to breaking some rules on alcohol and what not, I don't see how that is any different than coming on GC and writing in the Chit Chat forum stuff like "OHMYGOSH WE GOT SO DRUNK LAST NIGHT!" or whatever and having your letters in the signature (like many people do). While there probably are chapters out there (whether they are national, local or non-social GLO's) that follow every single rule and guideline to the 'T', realisitically speaking, I can almost promise that there are probably even more chapters out there who don't follow every single rule and guideline to the 'T'. I'm not saying it's OK, but that's something we should all work on. We shouldn't "crucify" this poster because she admitted her chapter did some things that were wrong, because I'm almost certain every chapter has at least one person who doesn't follow every single rule.
... however, that is just my .02 on that issue.
My heart really goes out to those girls. To me it sounded like no matter how much they loved the Fideles, they also loved Chi Omega very much, and I felt like their punishment was a little unjust. (of course I'm just basing that on what I've read about it)
doubleblue&gold mentioned "they obviously didn't care enough about Chi Omega to do the work to retain their charter"
umm.. did you SEE the list of stuff they had to do?
that puts a *tremendous* amount of pressure on everyone.. attendance, and especially putting the liability of the entire chapter on the exec board's family. all other probation terms aside, this iteself is A LOT, and a little bit scary.