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First off, NIC sets NO rules about membership selection or rush - hell, there are NIC chapters that are co-ed - so that's why they can have NPHC chapters and chapters with narrow focii and it's OK. They also have 60 members.

The absolute impossibility of NPHC and NPC joining up has ZERO to do with race...unless Black people have a gene that made them create sororities that rush/acquire members the way NPHC groups so. If any of the NPHC sororities decided to drop that model, NPC would tell them come on in. They're huge!! They'd be crazy not to! I'm pretty sure the smallest NPHC group absolutely dwarfs (dwarves?) the largest NPC group.

Maybe Munchkin03 or one of the other AXOs can answer this...when did AXO stop being music focused? Was it before they joined NPC? As far as all the AES groups, I don't think any of them ever had something that said "only education majors can join." They were located only at normal schools or schools of education within bigger universities, so having such a clause would have been moot. When they went into NPC, there was nothing membership wise that had to be changed.