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A few years back, a Phi Sigma Rho member posted in a discussion regarding the possibility of PSR joining the NPC. While Phi Sigma Rho is a social sorority, their membership is restricted to women in engineering and engineering technology. And if I remember correctly NPC by-laws (Unanimous Agreements maybe) would require PSR to open their membership to all women on campus - regardless of their area field of study - or something along those lines. Which Phi Sigma Rho is (was?) not intrested in doing.

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Originally Posted by TSteven (Post 2226506)

This...couldn't actually be the case, though, because each NPC member group can set its own requirements. Now, it would be HUGELY STUPID to participate in NPC recruitment at a school with few women in STEM fields if you only took women in STEM fields, because it would be expensive and time-consuming and you'd be way off on all of your RFM numbers, but the NPC bylaws would actually not prevent it.

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Originally Posted by DubaiSis (Post 2226388)

4-H participates in rush at Illinois, for example.

Sort of. They have a house and participate in the first round, but the only PNMs who are eligible for membership are 4-H members, so it isn't truly participating.

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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby (Post 2226551)

Your right (as you so often are), I didn't correctly remember the reason. :o

I just did a search and the reason given by PhiRhoSister - the Phi Sigma Rho member - was NPC's lack of an open expansion policy.

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Originally Posted by PhiRhoSister (Post 1083081)

My 2 cents...
NPC have a 27th group - no
New women's conference - probably yes

Phi Sigma Rho Sorority has been eligible for NPC membership for many years. Almost all of our chapters belong to the local Panhel. However, I do not see us joining NPC, until NPC has some type of open expansion policy like the NIC...

NIC - Open Expansion
No NIC member organization is prohibited from selecting undergraduates for the purpose of establishing a chapter on the campus of the host institution. The host institution’s Interfraternity Council may not deter expansion by withholding membership of NIC group from IFC.

NPC modified its stance on Recruitment and now has 4 recommended styles instead of the one-size fits all. So maybe NPC could continue to evolve, and modify its stance on expansion -- A change that would also greatly help the smaller NPC sororities like Theta Phi Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Sigma Delta Tau, which are three times smaller than the larger NPC sororities.

The above quote came from this 2005-2007 thread.

Question: Does anyone ever see the NPC allowing inclusion of a 27th group?

Well, that happens anyway, if an interest group makes themselves so obviously gung ho for (insert one of those mentioned groups there) and so obviously would be repelled by another group, but has been on campus a while and isn't going away. I.e. even if Panhel opens and chooses a sorority other than what the group wants, the group won't join it and will stay active.