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Sorry i haven't gotten back to this yet.
First i wanna just thank everyone for all of their input.
I'll start and the bottom and work up.
a estimated budget is drawn up and dues are set tp (people that we expect to pay dues/budget) normally comes out between $70 and $80, it has been that amount since at least 1996. Then we vote during the second meeting each semester. Any money left over goes into a treasury that has a book associated with it that everything is tracked. Only one person has access to it (the "treasurer") and there is an audit every time it switches hands. That money builds up and it's used for throwing parties open to the public, doing events for our "rush week", or covering the price of pledging. Though at any point in time, the treasury - the pledging budget isn't more then like $200 or $300.
Most of the money that goes into pledging goes to food and boos for the 2 parties where everyone drinks and eats for free. Though the first party pledges aren't allowed to drink.
Back to paying dues. Every person that crossed last semester, paid dues. that is 10 our of 36 members left int he school. another 10 paid dues, between sophomores and juniors. that leaves 16 people spread throughout that haven't paid. Not one senior (the people with jobs that can easily afford it) paid. Its like they just lose interest in their family, graduate, show up at the parties, and then 3 or 4 years later decide they want to be an active alumni who shows up to all events, and even some meetings.
There has always been people that aren't up for paying dues but it's nomrally been 3 or 4 people out of about 40, and those people usually decided for themselves that We is not for them and choose not to be apart of us at all. which is upsetting but a decision that i find much less disrespectful then what is happening now.
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