It almost seems as if ASD was formed like a Sorority Interest Group. They were installed as a chapter barely 8-9 months after their original founding. Perhaps ASD actively petitioned to become an NPC whereas NBO did not. In fact, according to some comments, it sounds that's exactly what they did.

Ahh...clever. I like it.:)

Dude, I searched and searched and couldn't find anything on that. Your internet skillz are far superior to mine.

Hot damn nice work! I like to think you had an edge on me though. Good internet detective skillz, you are the cyber Veronica Mars! (that's a total compliment, VMars is my girl 4lyfe!)

Funny!:)

Oh, So Funny!:eek:

None of You mental midgets can figure out why peoiple have left?:rolleyes:

Oh, I am being BAD!

Sorry, My Bad!

I wonder how many people have left thanks to Tom Earp.

Tom -

Please stop with the insults, they violate the TOS.

Besides this, they add nothing productive to the conversation - if you have a theory on why people have left, you should make these clear instead of making thinly-veiled insinuations.

Better yet, start a new thread for such a discussion.

Thanks.
RC

It's just so odd that he's working so hard to get people to engage him on the level that he criticizes.

If you want people to be nice, quit baiting them with insults. It seems pretty basic.

NBO also seemed to be struggling with numbers.

It's kind of sad to me, but I'm afraid that most of the NPCs don't have many people who would be founders of a new group today.

Despite the pioneering spirit of our own founders, we've grown really conventional, I think, and it just seems to me that the people who would create a new local from scratch wouldn't be the typically NPCers on most campuses. You'd almost have to be an interest group who formed solely with the purpose to affiliate for the NPC groups to want you, I'm afraid.

I hope it's just my SEC point of view that makes me think this.

If you're not under pressure you don't have to pioneer. My founders were the only women at their college; they formed Sigma Kappa in a way that was designed to support women in a school full of men. Your average college campus is now just slightly weighted in womens favor IIRC. Those who truly stick it out without affiliating with an existing national typically have one heck of a good reason to. Combine that with the attitude of many campuses towards locals and non-NPCs.. and the easy way is the clearest. I have the deepest respect for those who start their own GLO and persevere. Particularly when they do it in a positive (This is who we are) rather than a negative (we're not like them) manner.

I agree, but I feel like it's sad somehow that we've (NPC) lost that intensity, if that's the right word. All the groups, as far as I know, were founded to offer something that wasn't already there, but now we're as conventional and bureaucratic as the registrar's office. (Well, not really, but it's still hard to see how a group of young women who start their own group with the intention of founding a group will be comfortably absorbed by a national.)

I kept in touch with her on and off untill my gradutation, she said they were installed as Theta Nu Xi. :)

But how could that be?