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Originally Posted by MsDGP007
I'm sorry, but I really don't follow where you are coming from. Not to be smart or anything...I'm just confused. What's wrong with saying that NPHC orgs don't fit you? I mean...there were only two facets through which to see any of those organizations as an outsider and that's 1) The National website, or press, etc. and 2) the local chapter...if there was one. I went to a school were there was only Zeta Phi Beta and Delta Sigma Theta (AKA was there...but inactive or not allowed to rush...something like that). DST was sort of familiar to me because some of my friends from HS pledged...but the DST chapter was not too visable at my school. I only saw them at general NPHC events...not with their own events. ZPB was more so....but still...it was only a few girls...maybe 7 active sorors. Being that the NPHC wasn't really jumping at my school...I would need to turn to the national history to see what they were all about...because I would feel I would be pledging something much bigger than what I see in front of me. But the history of NPHCs don't really feel like something I can align myself into. Besides, as a collegian, don't you have to pledge your school's chapter? So why research other chapters...unless you want to pledge as a alumna....or you're thinking about transferring? Even so, I think it would be tough if you truly desire to be in such-and-such org one day, but you decide to sit out 4 years because you aren't feeling your local chapter. I don't know...that's just me. Maybe it happens more often than I think.
Also, who researches anything if at first they don't find it interesting or befitting? That's sort of like calling out someone for not buying a certain car...because although it's fast and popular...your head bumps the ceiling when you sit in it.
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I understand what you're saying but undergrad is only part of it. The real work begins after college, when you join a grad chapter. For most people, this will be their chapter for the rest of their lives and grad chapter is on a different level entirely. Some people have researched our orgs and fell in love with not only our history, but with what we are doing right now from a National perspective so they decided to charter a chapter if there wasn't one or wait and go grad. And like I said before...you don't have to do any research if you don't want to but don't act like you have...and I'm not talking to you specifically.