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Originally posted by AZ-AlphaXi
You know ... I've always thought that the biggest objection for a new, young group joining NPC would be the requirement to adhere to the expansion policy. For example, Ceres currently can place a colony on any campus they want. But should they join NPC, they would be subject to the same "open for expansion, presentation, invitation to colonize" methodology as the rest of us. That would certainly, I think, hinder a young group, when the competition among the rest of us to colonize is already high.
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I do not think the eligibility requirements are that difficult. It is just a matter of time and a good expansion plan to have a national character for 13 years and to establish 14 chapters. The requirements are a good way of proving stability. However, the Unanimous Agreement on Expansion that AZ-AlphaXi mentioned would really hinder a young, growing group and it's probably the main factor that has prevented the NPC from growing.
Ok, now I am going to play devil's advocate. The Expansion agreement is a classic rule that enables the big NCP groups to really get huge in the number of chapters and the small groups to stay small.
Case in point, you only have to look at the existing NPC groups to see that the smaller groups have not gotten much bigger since the 1950s. Rarely do you see the smaller groups being able to expand to the big Greek campuses even when the sororities are twice the size of the fraternities on a campus.
Think of it this way, for the Expansion agreement to really be fair there should be a "total" number of chapters set for NPC so that all the smaller NPC groups could reach total.