I oppose "Pay to Play."  There are a very few offices for which I feel
it's appropriate to require membership:  King and Queen, seneschal,
chancellor of the exchequer.  But I strongly oppose both "pay to play"
and "pay to fight."  One of the Society's strengths is that we welcome
people who want to dabble, and those who want to come and go.  Pay to
play excludes people -- and some of the people it excludes are, or could
become, our greatest assets.
