[FuzzieAlum]

No, I have a lot of respect for locals. Perhaps I phrased that badly. NPC is of course *aware* that locals exist. But the agreements they have to prevent girls from joining more than one sorority do not apply to locals. In one sense this is logical, because otherwise no local sorority could affiliate with a national organization. In another way it is very demeaning - a national establishing a colony can recruit not only independents and women from the local who petitioned for them (if that is the case) but members of ANY local on campus. I can't imagine that I would be thrilled if I were in a local sorority and some girls "defected" to the new national when it came on campus. It also means that a girl who joins a local and initiates could quit and then join a national right on that campus. That would certainly not be Panhellenic or nice, but it is allowed under NPC rules.