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Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
From the looks of this thread, some of the people were unsure about where their NIC dues went. 
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Not so much unsure as in disagreement with where their NIC dues went.
I think it had more to do with the amount of dues, which for some groups were over $10K, combined with the opinion, in the words of Phi Delta Theta's official statement when it withdrew from the NIC, that "the NIC has drifted from its primary mission of serving as an advocate for the American college fraternity movement toward one whose central function is to provide educational programming to our undergraduates. . . . [Phi Delta Theta] feel[s] strongly that the purpose of a trade association that represents college fraternities must be to provide services to the member organizations, rather than to the members of those organizations."
In other words, we're paying a lot of money and we don't think we're getting our money's worth.
Phi Delta Theta's entire statement can be found in the first post in
this thread.
And TSteven is exactly right -- the history of the NIC is full of groups coming and going, coming back . . . .