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NPC Undergraduate recruitment IS sorority shopping and is acceptable as such in its current form. Our organizations' primary mission is collegiate programming.

Our reason for recommending the closing of an AI forum is that AI membership intake is more similiar in its quiet promotion as the D9 membership intake. There are a lot of NPC members who don't approve of AI at all, and the vast majority of sorority women don't even know what AI is. This isn't saying AI is a bad thing-- it is that our organizations have not promoted it heavily b/c they want to keep the membership intake of alumnae initiates low for quality control purposes. AI's don't have a new member period of testing the waters like an undergraduate. An AI, once initiated, isn't bound by regular obligations ensuring that we'll get our "money's worth" from investing in them as a member. They can easily fade away into the woodwork once initiated with no further obligations, unlike a collegian who must maintain membership requirements to retain her status.

AI isn't the same as undergraduate recruitment, just as alumnae membership is worlds away from collegiate membership.

ETA: To the current AI's on GC, I don't care if you sorority shopped or not. You're our sisters now and that's all that matters. I do have a problem with promoting the notion of sorority shopping or promoting the idea that sororities are holding open enrollment options for alumnae members. We simply don't do that and alumnae membership is not at the point where its programming would support such an influx of members. The internet makes it a lot harder for PNAI's b/c if you ARE sorority shopping, it's very easy to let that slip on the internet and make your experience IRL a lot harder.