Seeing red

03Apr09

I am incredibly angry right now.

For those who aren’t aware, I am a member of a professional sorority on campus. It’s an engineering and science sorority, with the goal of uniting girls in a predominantly male field. I joined it when I was a computer science major; now that I’m a psychology major, it’s pretty much irrelevant to me. But, I like the girls, so I was active in the organization for two semesters, serving as the philanthropic chair for one.

This semester, I was too busy with my job at the school newspaper, my biology lab, my research and a seventeen hour course load to be active in an organization that I’m involved in for a nonacademic reason. I was stretched entirely too thin last semester. I said I would try to be active, but it ended up not working out. I went to no meetings, I did not participate in the recruitment process, I will not participate in the upcoming semesterly trip, I won’t be involved in Ritual Week, and I will not be attending the Formal. However, against my knowledge, shirts were ordered for me and they were basically counting on my money.

However, seeing as how those dues serve to pay for the costs of me participating in various activities that I did not and will not be involved in, I see no reason why I should have to pay. I told them at most I would pay for the t-shirts because they were ordered for me (and I’d get three nice shirts out of the deal). But I pretty much categorically refused to pay dues for activities I did not get to participate in. I hope they don’t force me to pay, because I do like the sorority, and I would be very embittered towards them if I do. If they force me to pay, I suppose I will.

But they better not expect me to be active for the rest of my college career. I will not be inducted as an alumni, and I won’t be paying the required $300 “gift” to the sorority after I graduate.

Edit: They are forcing me to pay. Their loss.

Edit Two: Please kindly remember anonymous comments will be deleted.

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