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Originally Posted by fadedpromise02
Thank you SO much for your responses! I truly appreciate all your insight and advice!
Just to clear a few things up...
I HAVE been a sister in my sorority for about the past three and a half years... so I was a member. We are local and we are part of Panhel. I was talking with a friend of mine who "resigned" (we actually use the term desisterize in my sorority! haha) from her sorority and they told her she wasn't allowed to pledge another sorority unless it was local. So I was trying to figure things out based on what she told me, but everyone here seems to know a lot more about the subject which is great!
I'm not sure if anyone's insight changes after knowing this, it seemed like some people thought I was only going through initiation and was not yet a sister. Is there a place on the internet that I might be able to see the rules? Or are you fairly confident that I would be qualified to go through rush? I just don't want to feel dumb for trying! Haha.  |
To clarify, your friend was originally in the NPC. Anyone who is or was an initiated member of one of the 26 NPC organizations can never join another one. Locals, even if they participate in a campus Panhelllenic, are not included in this. You may join an NPC organization or presumably your friend who was in an NPC organization may join the local, providing the local has no membership requirements banning this. We are confident in your
eligibility. However, the likelihood that you would be accepted as a 22-year old transfer student would vary greatly from campus to campus. At some places NPC groups commonly accept members with this status. On other campuses this would be unheard of.
The reason initiation is important is that if you were a new member (formerly pledge) of one NPC organization and left before your initiation, you would be eligible to join another NPC organization, although depending on your situation you might have to go through a waiting period before you could pledge to a new group.
The other thing I'd add, and this is based more on etiquette and past experience than "rules," but since it won't make any difference to your eligibility for NPC groups whether or not you resign/desisterize from your local group, I wouldn't bother. Doing so is unnecessary and might just cause hard feelings. You're already out of a group you'd lost interest in, so it doesn't seem like you have to make it explicit - you can just drift away. Of course if you're deeply offended by the group or something and want to dissociate yourself with it/its practices, that might be another matter.
You may read about the rules (called NPC Unanimous Agreements) here:
http://www.npcwomen.org/undergrads/s...-policies.aspx