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[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
I was just being facicious. Just seems that sugar and spice doesn't realize that there's a life outside being an XYZ.

Kath summed up what I meant pretty well. There are people here that seem to be only getting one-half of what I'm saying.

I'm NOT saying that any of these people who drop theoretically "because of the money" are bad people.
If my dad died and money was hard to come by, I would probably drop out of my sorority.
If I had a family to take care of, I would probably drop and put my dues money towards that.
I wouldn't work two jobs to pay my dues.
I wouldn't donate eggs to pay my dues.
Hell, I probably wouldn't even donate plasma (considering I have super low blood pressure, I'm not supposed to -- there's a blood drive going on for Homecoming now and as much as I want Tri Delta to follow up last year's Homecoming win with another, I'm not donating).

But if I wanted it bad enough, I would. Well . . . maybe not donating my eggs.

All that David Stollman is saying is that, as sororities and fraternities, we need to make our GLOS WORTH IT for someone to join. If you're charging $1000 a semester for dues, you better be offering an amazing experience. If not, it's not surprising that people drop "because of the money" -- because to them, it's not worth it to lose study time and sleep time and maybe a couple tenths off their GPA so they can work a job to pay the dues.