what do i have to give back?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by 33girl

As you should have learned from all the discussions about letters on here, no, sometimes they can't.

But I would have to question someone who bought a ton of stuff you don't HAVE to buy and then pleads monetary reasons for not initiating.

At any rate, it's a moot point since it sounds like most of the things were either given to her by the chapter or by her big/family.

For the sake of argument/clarity though -- let's say that after she pledged, she went down to the campus greek life shop and bought two of everything, loaded 'em into the back of her pickup and used it to build a shrine to her sorority in her dorm room.

Would the sorority be requesting that she turn in all of that stuff as well? Or only the items which were provided on the organization's dime?

-- and I know you've done chapter adviser work, so you of all people should know that college freshmen (and college kids in general) are really terrible with money. How many brothers/sisters do we all know who were constantly late on their dues, but always managed to have enough money to pay $100+ bar tabs?