I've lived in France, great place to live.

If my organization found out that you were initiated into another fraternity, you would automatically be depledged or expelled, both as a constitutional issue but also as a matter of honor.

Even if you weren't initiated, most orgs would not want to take another group's "rejects," and so would probably blackball you.

Honestly im in a Fraternity myself. And i know plenty of members that have left Fraternities and joined others. I am not one of them nor do i support it. But hey S*** happens. They did get pledged really hard. However what we fail to understand is that Fraternities and Sororities dont stand for what they used to. I dont Care What fraternity your in, there is something that is lacking. Which is perfectly human. If you joined that organization as a freshman. You obviously matured into yourself and saw that the fraternity doesnt have much to offer you as you get older. After college life honestly you can "DROP" your letters and join another org as long as they are not in the same Council. Think about it. Who will really care and who will really know. You will be an Alumni with a job and the party days will pretty much be over. The question to ask yourself is will you be satisfied with your decision? Will it affect your personal life in any way? The bottom line is alot of people will say who will respect you, or who will take you seriously. But does it really matter after you graduate Undergrad. Are they in your shoes, NO, so they cant fully answer this question for you. Would you rather dismiss your "frat life" and hide it from your life or join something and be proud of it. Be a member that can make changes and offer something to Society. Thats my take.

RaH

P.S. And please i know MANY MANY orgs that has done this in IFC, NPC, NPHC, MCGC,IIRC and the list goes on.

How does somebody drop an NIC/IFC fraternity after college and join another one?

I suppose he would be referring to NPHC...although you could get an honorary like Mike Huckabee.

or rudy.

No you can't. Once youre in a fraternity that for life. How did you become a frat as a freshman? Must not be apart of the divine nine.

Exactly. Several organizations encourage members to pledge as early as possible. And not all organizations follow the "in it for life" mentality.


Umm...speak for yourself. There are several people here who don't feel their Greek experiences are lacking.

And I think that we forget that people talk to one another. If you were a member of an organization, chances are other people knew you were a member. You might be able to slip through the cracks, but to say that there's no way to get caught is naive.

Please speak for yourself and your org only. You are not in everyone's organization to know if there's anything lacking or not. And most members don't see their organizations as little social clubs that they will leave whenever things aren't what they want them to be or when things change. Most members are in it for the good and bad times and understand that it is what you make it and things will change because life is always changing. Someone that just wants to up and leave their org because things changed or their situation changed was never really loyal to their organization in the first place. And please leave the NPHC out of this because if you knew anything about us you would know that most of our members take our organizations very serious and alumnae membership is on a totally different level for us and we are encouraged to become even more active AFTER we graduate. So if someone slips thru the cracks and happens to get into one of our orgs after being in another, they lied and they are taking big risks that their lie will come to light and there is always someone who knows someone else. Our circles are a lot smaller than you think but you're on the outside looking in so you really don't know of which you speak. One thing I've learned from being in my org 16 years now and being active as an alumnae is that the org is what you make it and if you're unsatisfied you work to change it. And it's more about what you put in so that you can get more out of it. You'd know that if you knew what you were talking about. You don't simply trade one in for another because guess what, one day the new org that you slipped into won't be all that you want either and then what...go to another? Again, speak for your org only.

And I seriously doubt you know PLENTY of members who've done this. Outright LIE.

Actually, every organization I know of follows the "in it for life" mentality. It's some members of some organizations that don't follow that mentality.

Oops. That's what I meant to say.

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Just "part" -- generally doesn't need an article.

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Most of the groups I have seen are the "in it for life" category, if the members practice that is another story. As far as disassociating from a fraternity that is NIC there's a 5 year rule. I don't remember the exact phrasing but if you notify your national of disassociating, you can join another group after 5 years. The point being no one can force loyalty but we can make it practically impossible to make any switch. That being said, even if this guy stayed in college for at least another 5 years, it'd be pretty interesting to see them try and explain that he'd been in college for at least 6 years and wants to join a different org since he didn't care about the previous one. Sometimes, what seems like the easy way out is actually the hardest.

This post is only redundant to 15 of the past 20 or something posts, right? :)

I've never heard that one before. I've heard of several people jumping between NIC fraternities within 5 years, though.