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Originally Posted by aephi alum
It's not unheard of for a local group to form with the goal of becoming a chapter of a national org. My own chapter started out as a local sorority - they wanted to affiliate with AEPhi from the start, but the campus wasn't open to expansion at the time. When Panhel did open the campus for expansion, then we were able to become part of AEPhi.
Kappa Gamma went astray, though, when they selected letters, colors, and symbols so similar to those of Kappa Kappa Gamma as to be nearly indistinguishable, and when they stated that they were definitely affiliating with KKG. KKG may not even be interested in colonizing at SCSU!
It's a bit like a PNM showing up to recruitment dressed head to toe in the colors of one particular sorority and saying things like, "WHEN I am an XYZ..." Offputting, to say the least.
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Totally agree. At my first university, there was a local formed with the intent to eventually affiliate with a NPC. They did not, however, hone in on one NPC org and literally copy everything about them
They chose their own name/symbols/colors etc even though they were in existance for only a short time before becoming a colony of a NPC.
There was another local on that same campus whose local name started with the letter Zeta and went by the nickname of "Zeta" around campus. When the school finally did agree to bring on NPCs, they wanted ZTA sooooooooo bad just so they could still be called the "Zetas"
. ZTA did not choose to even present when the campus was opened.. but they happily joined another NPC.