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Originally Posted by gpb1874
You said PMA was a social fraternity. In my experience, social is not a primary object as it is tends to be with the NIC type fraternities. I thought PMA existed to advance the enjoyment and skill in music, not be social. I realize it can vary from campus to campus.
I'm not saying it wouldn't work or is a bad idea, just some food for thought.
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Phi Mu Alpha is a social fraternity. Similar to NIC members, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Gamma Sigma, FarnHouse, Sigma Phi Delta and Triangle. All are social first, yet focus on specific areas of academics. (i.e. music, agriculture, engineering, sciences, architecture etc.)
From what I have read and heard, Phi Mu Alpha would be a welcomed member of NIC. My understanding is that the only issue in joining is duel membership.
The NIC single membership policy started with the formation of the NIC in 1909 and continues today. To be a member of the NIC, one of the stipulations was that members of the fraternity could only have a single membership in a "social" fraternity. Be it "general" or "academic" or "religious" based - i.e. no other membership in an NIC "type" fraternity. Thus, if a fraternity allowed duel membership, they had to change the policy to single membership. For what it is worth, both NIC founding member Acacia and later, Delta Chi, allowed duel membership at one time. Perhaps a few other NICs that I am not aware of as well.
And to the NIC's credit, the NIC did not require any current members of the fraternity to give up membership in either of the fraternities. As far as the NIC was concerned, he was a member in good standing with both fraternities.
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What MysticCat said. ^^^