How is deactivating viewed on your campus?

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

Terminated sisters were just that. They were no longer part of the sorority and had their pictures blacked out on composites.

Wow, really? Now THAT is final! Come to think of it, there were a couple of sisters that left our chapter back in my day whose pictures I would have liked to take a black sharpie to...

[adpiucf]

When I was in school, the sorority chapters were fairly large. People who voluntarily cancelled their membership or who were kicked out often had already burned their bridges and/or cut ties with the organization at the time of cancellation. They retained the friends they wished. No one went out of their way to hate the person or to strike up friendship anymore than would be normal.

For members who went financially inactive for the school year, it was the same.

If you quit your sorority, chances are you weren't terribly involved in the first place and you quit because you weren't getting anything out of it. I can't imagine you'd be missed too much because no one knew you or you dropped off the radar.


We called it membership cancellation if you were no longer a member, and inactivity if you were temporarily on financial leave due to emergency or study abroad. The inactive members were still members, but not entitled to partake in membership activities for the remainder of the school year. Deactivation sounds like something you can flip on and off at will. Membership cancellation is permanent.

[Low C Sharp]

At a couple of the campuses I know best, there is actually a stigma attached to STAYING with a sorority after sophomore year. At one, the sororities would take pledge classes of 50+ freshmen each year, but they might only graduate 8 seniors. Rush is a huge deal for freshmen, but it's like you must be a loser if you're still relying on your sorority as an upperclassman. The attitude was, don't you have anything better to do? You're dressing up to go to a MIXER? To a large extent, this applied to the "cool" sororities too.

This didn't apply to fraternities; it was considered legit for guys to be living in the house as seniors, etc.
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[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

At a couple of the campuses I know best, there is actually a stigma attached to STAYING with a sorority after sophomore year. At one, the sororities would take pledge classes of 50+ freshmen each year, but they might only graduate 8 seniors. Rush is a huge deal for freshmen, but it's like you must be a loser if you're still relying on your sorority as an upperclassman. The attitude was, don't you have anything better to do? You're dressing up to go to a MIXER? To a large extent, this applied to the "cool" sororities too.

This didn't apply to fraternities; it was considered legit for guys to be living in the house as seniors, etc.

That is really sad. Some people have the misconception that your sorority is not for life, but just for the four years you're in college... now some folks are cutting that down to two? Your initiation oath kind of rings hollow if you plan on deaffiliating in less than two years.

[TriDPrincess]

From what I see deactivation at our school is uncommon for initiated members. New members are a different story I personally know of four who dropped out.