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Originally posted by 33girl
If chapters are to have any respect for policy, the punishment has to be the same for ALL chapters.
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Absolutely.
There is also the fact that if you put them on social probation that membership and activity in the organization will dwindle. It sounds like people may have joined for the wrong reasons, so you might as well yank the charter if this is what you intend to do. You can't take away the life blood of the organization to punish it and expect it to thrive afterwards. You are basically dooming it to being "that group" that will take anyone because the popular, good looking people don't want to have anything to do with them.
I'm not torn at all on this. Were I the executive director of this organization, I'd be looking to do one of two things:
#1: Reorganize the chapter -- that means alll the current girls are made alums and told that they can't have anything to do with the new chapter. Maybe leave the pledge class in tact to help with recruitment. Then just start from scratch.
#2: Pull the charter, wait a few years and recolonize.
At some point, to be fair, people who have abused their free choice need to face the consequences for this. If not, what kind of message is this organization sending to the smaller chapters that it keeps on a much tighter leash -- that money is more important than standards in their organization?
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