[Richard(SNU)]

My two cents are that, on the one hand, MTV is basically evil and
symbolizes everything that's wrong with our shallow, youth-obsessed,
media-driven culture.

On the other hand, Pan Hellenic boards (on the local and national
level), are also basically evil, and if MTV has succeeded in pissing
off NPC they have my respect for that.

For example my campus (Cal Poly Pomona) has had four NPC sororities
for the past twenty years (KD, SK, ZTA, XO). At various times
Tridelt, and I believe ADPi and a few others have tried to colonize
but the local Pan Hellenic (in collaboration with NPC) was successful
in keeping them out.

Mind you, we are talking about a campus that has grown to more than
35,000 students, pretty close to 50% female. The way I see it, if
four sororities can't consistently make and exceed quota with numbers
like that, they have a problem with the way they market themselves,
and bringing in a fifth NPC sorority can't possibly do any harm. But
the process that NPC has defined for handling situations like this
seems more or less broken as far as I can tell. If someone who is a
current undergrad at Cal Poly can shed some light on this I'd be happy
to hear about it.

So it really depends on which evil is the lesser in your opinion. The
more I watch the show, the more begruding respect I have for Sigma
AEPi for doing this. I think it will be healthy for Greeks in the
long run. The fact that NPC and it's member orginiazations are
basically shitting over this is giving me some guilty pleasure, to be
honest.

It's like the ladies of Sigma AEPi are basically saying to everyone
else, "We have the autonomy to do this and we're going to do it, and if
you don't like it, well, you can just talk to my hand!"

Go Sigma AEPi!