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Originally posted by kddani
ETA: I love fines as discipline. Of course, that may also be because I used to be treasurer of my chapter. But with college students, nothing speaks to them like money (besides alcohol, lol)
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I think that really depends on the individuals as to whether or not fines is a discipline. My boyfriend for example used to hate selling things. His fraternity chapter was small, and one of the fundraisers they did was a BBQ plate selling thing. Each brother was responsible for selling maybe 10 tickets. And since the bf hated asking people for money for these tickets, he just bought all the tickets himself, and distributed them to his friends.
I guess that's one way of doing it. hehehe.
In my own experience, I've noticed that fines work for some and not others. LIke me, for example. I pretty much worked through college and paid my way through. I didn't really have the extra cash to give to the chapter for fines of any sort, so I def. tried to avoid fines. That wasn't always the case with other sisters though. Some didn't care there was a fine and just decided to not show up anyway.
I think fining is really negative... I don't know about other people, but I hate being told that something is "MANDATORY OR ELSE you will be fined". I hate it. Not all people care and not everyone is going to show up just because there is a fine involved. If they don't want to attend for whatever reason, they won't be there and will gladly fork over the cash to make up for their absence.
My school never did canning, but I can almost guarantee ya'll that is not something I would enjoy doing, and probably would have worked my budget to squeeze the money out for a fine.
I like honeychile's idea of letting the members decide how they are going to raise the money.. it's a lot less negative than "BE THERE OR YOU WILL BE FINED! BWAH HA HA!"
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