[FuzzieAlum]

While I don't think a Latina group would want to join the NPC, they are generally quite explicit in stating you don't have to be Latina to join. It's like the NPHC groups - you don't have to be African American to join, but most members are.

Smatter of fact, most of the new ethnic sororities rush more like the NPHC groups - you approach one rather than all of them, as you do in formal rush. Switching to formal would be a huuuuge change.

Newsun, your post is intriguing, but I'm not sure I agree. If I was going to start a local and bring a national to my campus, I would want the strongest group I could find. It's not just the Panhellenic's rules keeping them out. It's like formal rush, when one chapter can't get the girls, and the school tries to pressure gals into joining them. They don't want to join a group that's not what they want. I know I wouldn't be happy if we wanted to bring X to our campus, but NPC told us, "No, you have to bring Y, because they are small and need chapters."

And if we didn't have the expansion rules, well, the smallest nationals still have limited resources. Would they have the money and volunteers to go open up chapters elsewhere - and would those chapters succeed? AXD has done a lot of expansion over the years but we aren't growing. There's maybe a reason these groups are taking care of the chapters they have first and foremost.