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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
why should a fraternity or sorority be any different?
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Because fraternities and sororities, unlike a landlord, a college, a member of the marching band, etc. offer lifetime membership.
As people have mentioned, this lifetime membership is contingent on the keeping of promises made at initiation and if a girl specifically betrays the sorority by going against the sorority's ideals and the promises she made in initiation, then stripping her of her membership is totally understandable. I've never been through a ritual, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't imagine that a solemn and serious ceremony requires the initiate to promise that she will pay $400 or whatever a semester for the rest of her time in college. Implicitly, maybe, but I doubt founders had it in mind that girls would be stripped of their letters if they were unable to pay dues.
33girl provided me with an excellent answer. I can understand the difference between a girl who CAN'T pay and a girl who doesn't want to work hard enough to pay. And the differences with how you handle those situations. But given the differences between all of your examples and the nature of GLO's, I don't think it was a very good analogy. My major confusion was with how limited the idea of "lifetime membership" actually is when you get down to brass tacks.
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