I was thinking the same thing.

#1- It's Monday and we're all bored....

#2-No campuses currently having recruitment, so the "Bid Day Pictures" thread hasn't been updated in a while.......

#3-No fraternity got caught sacrificing a kitten this weekend, so nothing much to talk about......

#4-No chapters were shut down this weekend for holding illegal scavenger hunts, so nothing to gossip about.......

We share Eastern Illinois University, Longwood University, and Beloit. Only three so not too many.

Just to make sure I'm getting the question correct: Are there two NPC groups that are in partnership in chapter locations? Such as if AAA is at State U then BBB wouldn't expand there but would expand at University of State if AAA didn't have a chapter there?

Since it apparently happens with other councils; what is the point of this?

I think the question is what NPC groups do not have any (or only a few) chapters at campuses in common in case they want to merge.

^^^Besides, it's not like this is the first thread that's been created that has no purpose other than to discover some useless piece of info

Yes it is.

Naraht's talking about mergers and how awkward it would be if one organization merged with another, and two chapters were forced to merge with each other as a result. It's just speculation on whether a merger could happen today with NPC organizations where that WOULDN'T happen--no campus overlap between sororities.

I think the answer is no.

I like all of those answers.

Your understanding of my question is correct, unfortunately it is sort of phrased as a double negative. I couldn't think of a better way. :(

I believe not too long ago AST and Pi Beta Phi did not share any campuses, but then Pi Phi colonized at NYU recently.

I do not think there are any 2 NPCs that do not share at least one campus.

Now that you mention Pi Phi, I think that's the combo (AST/Pi Phi) that I discovered a couple years ago.

There is a listing on the public side of our web site, aephi.org.

NO! Please think of the kittens! :(

The part that makes it especially silly is I can't imagine any sororities thinking about merging. TPA is (I believe) the smallest NPC sorority and it is in growth mode, so why would they give that up? AEPhi and SDT have a similar background, but they also seem to be doing just fine without interference from anyone else, so why would they want to merge?

The only change I could foresee in the membership of the NPC is allowing a Canadian sorority to join, and maybe they'd merge with an NPC sorority that isn't represented in Canada already. That is definitely feasible since there are only a handful of international sororities. But there have been threads before about the issues associated with things as unsorority-like as international banking rules that will probably keep that from happening.

There are so SO SO many NIC fraternities and some of them are really small, so I could see that being a common point of discussion among them, but I don't really see it in NPC.

I seem to remember, when reading about past mergers, that some chapters just colonized as a new organization, rather than merging with the other (already present) chapter on campus. I.E.- AAA and BBB merged nationally, and both sororities already had chapters at Alpha University. The Beta Chapter of AAA at Alpha University (the one being absorbed) decides that they don't want to become members of BBB, so they ask CCC to pick them up, and CCC agrees.

Of course, I could be going crazy- but I seem to remember somebody doing it at some school. Zeta Tau Alpha fitting somewhere into the picture comes to mind. Can anyone confirm my too-ready-for-Thanksgiving-break thought process?

ETA: This also could have been a fraternity. Like I said- my brain is ready for Turkey Day.

Or WERE there? There is that other thread about the chapter being shut down...

I just can't understand why international banking rules would inhibit cross border sororities when there are a large number of cross border fraternities. I understand that expansion and rushing rules are considerably different between the NIC and NPC, but just can't imagine why the banking rules would be different.