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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
Let me ask this:
When you type "disaffiliate" what do you mean?
When I type "disaffiliate" or "disassociate," I am talking about people who do not want to be a Delta anymore. That surpasses financial, health, and personal issues. I am not simply talking about someone who is inactive or nonfinancial for a period of time.
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I'm talking about both actually.
I know of several situations where women have been faced with tough decisions about continuing their membership. For example, on some campuses with large physical houses, the sororities require members to live-in so they can pay-off their mortgages.
I've known of several instances where the chapters told people "live in, or else you're totally out" because they wanted to force someone into helping pay for the mortgage. For example, I had a friend whose father died during her junior year, her family lost their business, and she had to commute from home in order to afford school. But her sorority was having problems filling all the beds because they were below total -- so they told her to turn in her badge. It was a nasty thing to do, but it wasn't an isolated incident. It happens more often then people realize.
So technically, she was forced to "disassociate", but it really wasn't a choice.
If her chapter had gone to her home, gone through her drawers, and pulled out her sorority items, that would have been pouring salt in her wounds. That's nasty, and unsisterly.
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