Mwahahaha! Cara and "The Grand Princess of Everything Phi Sig" (aka Alison, so named by Cara) take over the country, establishing Phi Sig chapters at EVERY school and support greek life where ever they go...

Who knows, maybe we will gather sisters from all 26 and hop around the globe expanding EVERYWHERE until everyone is greek! Even the people in Greece!

Mwaahahaha!

*Yes, I have been awake too long and am very very bored at work... dood, its 6:30am, and Ive been here since 5...

I guess a lot of it is regional. I'm from the South, and I had never heard of TPA, SSS, ASA, etc. until I had already joined a sorority and learned the list of NPC groups. I imagine that at a school where it's just the big strong groups, even if the smaller ones have the money, alumnae support, and resources, that it would be very difficult because you do have girls who come in saying "I want to be a Theta/Chi-O/Pi Phi/KKG" and don't give the smaller ones a chance. They aren't being superficial, they're just going by what they know.

That said, I'd love to see another sorority at my school. There is a lot of anti-sorority sentiment, but there are 2 of us, and we're at/near capacity. It's hard having a Panhellenic with just 2 sororities--we have a lot of deadlocks. But, I'm not sure whether to consider my school large (based on its name and prestige) or small (based on the fact that we have about 5,000 undergrads).

In a word, EDUCATION. In the push to shorten pledge/new member periods, a lot of NPC lore has been lost. I know that our initiation test had two parts, a local and national section, and we were expected to know every GLO on our campus and a good percentage of ones that weren't. You can't miss something that you don't know exists.

I would advise all pledge moms/new member moms or whatever the PC name is today, to at least give a list of ALL of the GLO sororities and fraternities to the new members. That way, when they visit another campus or Greekchat or whatever, they won't come off as a ditz.

honeychile

Something that my chapter did to promote learning the other 25 NPC sorors... our Panhelenic representative gave the chapter a challenge as to who could name the most NPC orgs... the winner got a prize... and anyone who could name more than 10 (other than the ones on campus) got a smaller prize. Yeah it kinda sucks because Phi Sig actually has the same number of chapters as some other more "well known" Orgs... but the chapters are usually at smaller universities and smaller chapters... so... it's ok I know Phi Sigs Kick Booty !!!!

Funny funny: When I went to LTS, I told Gina D'Amato Kaufman that I could name all 26, it was during this carnival thing where you played games dealing with different aspects of the fraternity and other stuff (fun times) and you got tickets and could get things with them... well she was at the NPC table, and I named them all... she gave me a lot of tickets... :)

Good times.

I did it the other night at my house... I think Im somewhat of a sideshow or something... Our SDC (pledge mom) told me she was going to hire me to come talk about all I know (Phi Sig and NPC wise) The meeting would have to be longer than one hour ;)

It would seem (and this is comes from an uneducated source) that as far as smaller schools are concerned you wouldn't have such a hard time colonizing. If you have a good colonization plan you can succeed with MINIMAL resources. In my fraternity our colony was given 1 advisor for a year and then after that they visited us TWICE. Now in our first year with the amount of dues and initiation fees we've paid in I'm positive HQ has made back their investment already.

I might be wrong, but I think the typical sorority colonization requires more resources than that of a fraternity, due to having to educate the girls about things like formal rush and such. And again, it's the eternal circle. It is a lot less of a strain for (as an example) XO to take one of their 8-10 consultants off the road to stay with and help a new or struggling chapter. Whereas if ASA wants to take a consultant off the road to do it - that's 1/4 of our consultant force.

Yes, theoretically it's easier to start a chapter someplace where you don't have to have a mansion-house, but I would wager the costs for that get made up by local member dues. Where the "profit" (sorry, crass word, but can't think of a better one) happens is with national dues. A DZ at Clarion pays the same national dues as a DZ at LSU. If you have more sisters, you will have more national member fees, period.

In Kappa Delta's Normal Shield (our new member manual), we have a handy-dandy section in the back that lists all of the NPC sororities, shows their new member and initiate badges, lists their place/date of founding, colors, symbols, mascots, flowers, etc.... We didn't go over it in our new member program, but I checked it out on my own (yeah, I'm a "learning is fun" person too!). Do any other groups have this in their manuals?

We don't have that, but I wish we did! :D I memorized all the NPC sororities just for my own benefit...I think girls in my chapter sometimes get caught up in our Greek system and forget that at most schools there are more nationals than locals...

Alpha Delta Pi did when I was a pledge, and continues to do so, as far as I know.

Color me yet another "learning is fun" person, but I still feel better knowing the different NPC pins, mascots, flowers, etc.!

honeychile

Phi sig's new member manual has an NPC seciton with how the NPC was formed and a list of all the orgs, their colors, symbol, flower,founding date, and school where founded.

So does D Phi E :)

33girl, I hear what you're saying about the LC sacrifice, but we (DPhiE) use our volunteers to make up the slack for that sacrifice, and so far, so good :)

I think that's really cool how the new member manuals have that section with all the NPC section!

Our manual has the sororities, their badge, their year and school of founding, and their flower and colors (no mascot, crest, pledge pin or philanthropy). Unless, they've changed it, however, they do not include the NPHC groups, and I wish they did - that's one reason right there for some of the ignorance NPC members tend to have about NPHC groups.

Alpha Gam's new member manual had a section concerning other NPC sororities. It had a picture of each Badge and Pledge Pin, date and place of founding, colors, flowers, jewel, and philanthropy. We also had a listing of the NPHC sororities and fraternities.

The manual's been updated since I pledged, but I have no reason to believe that the info was removed. Its so important to know that information!