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Originally posted by Shelacious
[B] The question she was asking, I guess: do the "rules" prohibit you as an Alpha Gam from joining Zeta without "depledging" or "denouncing" your Alpha Gam membership? [/color]
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I'm fairly certain that an Alpha Gam sister wanting to join Zeta Phi Beta would be frowned upon. The reason I say this is because, once initiated, a member of an NPC sorority is not allowed to join another NPC sorority, regardless of whether or not she denounces her membership in her original organization. Now, I know that Zeta is an NPHC org and not an NPC one, but to me the rules should still apply...
My rationalization for saying this is because, basically, when you get initiated into an NPC organization you are considered to be a lifelong member of that group. Should you at any time decide to leave the organization, you are not allowed to join another NPC sorority -- not as an alumna or a collegiate.
I would think that the same would hold true of an NPHC organization also if a situation ever came up where an initiated NPC member pursued membership in an NPHC group (or vice versa). There may not be a written rule in Panhellenic currently outlawing that from happening, but it's probably because the issue has never been brought to the National Panhellenic Council's attention. (I'd really like to know if this has ever come up!)
This is a really interesting thread!
I've always considered NPHC and NPC sororities to be equal entities, so it never entered my mind that someone might want to join one organization of each group.