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Alphabet Soup
My, but you people love your acronyms!
NIC - "The North-American Interfraternity Conference (or NIC), (formerly known as the National Interfraternity Conference) is an association of 74 collegiate men's fraternities "
NPC - "The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), founded in 1902, is an umbrella organization for 26 (inter)national women's sororities."
NPHC - "The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek lettered fraternities and sororities. "
MGC - I couldn't find this one. Could it be the same as NMGC -- "The National Multicultural Greek Council (NMGC) is an umbrella council for ten Multicultural Greek Letter Organizations established in 1998."?
I though at first, based on the way some people mentioned these things, that a university would have houses from only one of these organizations, but after some research I know that's not true. At my own school, we had house affiliated with NIC, NPC, and NPHC.
I'm guessing now that this is relevant mostly because each organization has different rules regarding recruitment, daily operations, etc. This won't help me determine how things are done at Fictional University, but it will help in writing about what goes on within the fictional fraternity.
SEC - Again, nothing specific found, but I would guess it to be South Eastern Conference. If so and if I "can't write in a tiny Greek system," then I'm guessing that all South Eastern Conference universities have a large Green system. Did I guess correctly?
I like the idea of modeling this fictional school after a real one. I'll choose some Texas university of moderate size and investigate their Greek population.
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