Lack of Motivation

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else has had problems with people not attending events and not doing whatever their position is? How do you handle it? How do you get people motivated to do stuff?

Right now, the situation with my sorority is that we only have 16 girls and half of them are going to graduate this year while the other half are newly initiated members. Those of us that are graduating this year are getting burnt out and are busy and stressed out with schoolwork and job hunting. A lot of the newly initiated girls are slacking off. Since we don't have many sisters in our chapter right now, we really need everyone to be helping out. However, since these new sisters aren't doing their chair positions, the rest of us have to do their work on top of our own, and we're getting frustrated and discouraged. I'm really worried that we, older girls, are going to graduate and our chapter is going to just fall apart since none of the new girls want to do anything.

We have fines for not attending a minimum number of events, but a lot of people don't pay up. We've tried talking to them, but nothing changes. What else can we do? How can we get these girls to want to actively participate and actively perform their duties as a chair?