[FuzzieAlum]

Being in a band or arts fraternity or sorority is every bit as much as a time constraint as being in a service/social sorority or fraternity, but no one thinks twice of extending membership to someone who's really involved in such an organization. Additionally, what if someone wanted to join an NPC/NIC or an NPHC organization as an alumnus? Would it be as big of an issue then?

You're right, and there are Greeks who are in sports, etc. But I think that NPHC and NPC/NIC groups, despite their differences, make fairly similar demands on one's time. Sororities and fraternities schedule their events around the events of the members (one reason the chapters on my campus had chapter meetings on Sunday nights - no one's at a track meet, or meeting with the young democrats, or putting on a school play then) and thus end up doing things at the same time as each other. I would imagine that a member, say, of an NPHC group and an NPC group would frequently find herself expected to be in two places at once.

So I guess I didnt' mean the total time so much as how it was allocated.

Plus, there are other things - as an AXD, I am expected to wear "no other badge" higher than my Quill or at the same height. I don't know, do NPHC groups have similar policies? What would the member do with her badges, never wear them at the same time?

Is it a regular occurence for NPHC women to be initiated as alums? I can tell you that for NPC alum ladies, most of them are like, "Alumnae Initiates? What's that?", but then often times, the women who are serving as the House Mothers will be alumnae initiated.

NPHC groups don't have alumni initiation in the same way NPC and NIC groups do. Once you graduate college, you join a grad chapter, and being active is more expected than it is with NIC/NPC groups. You can join a grad chapter post-graduation, but it wouldn't be called "joining as an alum," and it's way more common.

Does that help? I'm not an expert on NPHC groups myself, so forgive me if I got something wrong.