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Old 10-11-2003, 07:07 PM
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Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
Again, I have to disagree, there isn't always a way to pay, at least not a way our membership would approve of. Dues are pretty low at many schools, mine included, but at some they are off the charts. A couple pizzas won't cut it. And I know I sure as heck didn't order a couple of pizzas a week as an undergrad. My budget didn't stretch that far.

Sure, I suppose anyone could raise the money by something like prostitution or drug dealing, but if any GLO supports that they definitely aren't worth the price! And even something very ethical like working at Starbucks means, for some students, a substantial drop in GPA - and again, GLOs are about high academic standards as well. Quite honestly, if Alpha Xi Delta told me that being a member was worth having a much lower GPA, I'd question our values. A sorority is not supposed to be first in one's life; Theta Chi says it best with, "Alma mater first, and Theta Chi for alma mater."

I just really don't like generalized statements that don't give anyone the benefit of the doubt. To say that _no single person EVER_ quit a GLO for money is almost bound to be false. Can't we have a little charitable feeling for some of our former brothers and sisters? (Or were they really buying our friendship, and that friendship was cut off with the flow of dollars?) And for our own organizations? (If we have to offer enough value to keep in every perpetually unsatisfied sister we made the mistake of pledging, pretty soon a Nobel Peace Prize, a house in Paris, and George Clooney will be standard Little Sis gifts.)
Again, you're making things way too overly complicated.

If a sorority member decides that she can't pay the dues because her job is making her GPA drop too much, that doesn't mean the problem is the money. It means she values her GPA over her sorority experience. And nobody is saying there's anything wrong with that.

The money is still not the main issue in that hypothetical situation. I'm still waiting for someone to come up with a situation where it is.
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