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As someone who has served on my campus Panhellenic Association's Extension Exploration Committee, allow me to educate you on the process of NPC extension.

When campus Panhellenic membership numbers increase, Panhellenic will form a committee to research the possibility of extension or raising total. This will be composed of members from the local chapters. They look at historical recruitment numbers, recent extensions at peer campuses, and consider what they see as an ideal chapter size on their campus. The committee presents to the campus Panhellenic, and the delegates vote on whether to open for extension.

If the campus Panhellenic votes in favor of extension, NPC groups will visit campus and submit binders of information if interested. They may withdraw their interest if after visiting they are no longer interested. Of the interested groups, the campus Panhellenic will select 2-4 groups to present, and then the delegates will vote on which groups will be invited to extend.

NPC doesn't have the power to tell a group that they can't colonize at a university if it's what the campus Panhellenic and the specific NPC group both want. NPC (or possibly individual NPC groups, since you don't have the full story) visited campus and determined extension was not viable. Either SIUC Panhellenic voted no on extension or no NPC groups are interested in colonizing. This brings me to the main point...

NPC groups do not want to set a chapter up to fail. If there is no interest for another NPC sorority at the current total, it's not going to happen. NPC groups like all groups on a campus to be about the same size. It's quite possible that the Panhellenic groups like having 70 members each, and that there is no evidence (ie recruitment numbers rising every year) that there is interest to support another 70-member chapter.

Look at the thread about the year's extensions and closures. NPC groups have far fewer closures than NIC groups. I wouldn't want my chapter to be one of those flashes in the pan, part of the boom and bust cycle of chartering. I am glad adding another chapter requires a 2/3 majority of existing NPC groups.

Re: Homecoming, my school has 14 PHA sororities and low 20s-ish IFC fraternities. Every fraternity gets matched with a sorority for Homecoming and Greek Week. Say there are 21 fraternities. Since membership sizes vary, the largest 7 are paired with a sorority. The next 7 (medium size) are paired with one of the remaining 7 (smallest), and then paired with a sorority. Perhaps SIUC could match fraternities with each other (based on size) to allow all to be matched with a sorority.