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Originally posted by Shelacious
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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Shelacious,
Since the NPC rules only apply to the 26 NPC groups, I have never read anything that states that it is not permissible to be initiated as an Alpha Gamma Delta collegian and they say, 15, 20 years later be permitted to join Zeta Phi Beta (if invited), since ZPhiB is not in the 26 NPC roups.
Since Zeta Phi Beta is not one of the NPC 26, I don't think a woman would have to renounce her AGD vows as she wouldn't really be breaking an NPC rule of being iniated into a 2nd NPC org.
(I should emphasize that if a woman renounces her membership in AGD, she can never re-join AGD, nor any other NPC org. Once you've borne witness to an Initiation Ceremony, that's it, you've used up your 1 NPC "chance").
The only explicit "no-no" that I know of and have read about would, again, to be initiated into Alpha Gamma Delta and then say, try to join Chi Omega or Kappa Kappa Gamma or something, because you can only be permitted to be initiated into 1 and 1 only, of the 26 NPC groups. But that's not what we are talking about, so I will jump back to the topic at hand....
I guess since there is this absence of things being explicitly written down vis a vis the NPC + NPHC membership quandry, we have to sort of draw conclusions about being an initiate of an NPC and an NPHC. There is a lot of grey area here, for sure...
This is a good thread....good discussion