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Originally Posted by Cheerio
To your first point: It's not just about who should be allowed to participate as a sorority member. A college student has to earn the right to join, and then participate in, a sorority by performing and maintaining simple standards of education and conduct.
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Originally Posted by ASTalumna06
Honest question: are you serious?
How many members do you think we have join our organizations after a few surface-level conversations, followed by weeks of showering them with love and gifts? What did they "earn" in that regard? Why couldn't a community college student "earn" membership in the same way? Are you suggesting community college students can't maintain education and conduct standards?
Also, sorority membership isn't a "right," and if it was, you wouldn't need to earn it at all.
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Fair enough. Use the word 'privilege' instead of the word 'right'. A student earns the privilege of joining, and participating in, a sorority by meeting her chapter's specific membership selection criteria.
Nowhere do I state CC students can't maintain education and conduct standards.
But in deciding whether to allow the privilege of membership to CC students via CC chapters, are we looking for sisters to whom we can give quality experiences?
Or do we tip the scales toward quantity in number of chapters, quantity in number of sisters, and quantity of dues fees paid?
Say the NPC allows its groups to form chapters at CCs. It's been previously mentioned by others on greekchat that if an NPC sorority wants to initiate women attending a CC they'd best be prepared for the inevitablities of:
women choosing to attend a 4 year school, after their CC, that doesn't have their NPC group on campus and thus they decide to drop from the sorority;
women whose 4 year college HAS their NPC chapter, but said chapter has the right to refuse any transferring sister (from either a CC or a 4 year school) from full membership participation.
Somehow those inevitabilities, and others unmentioned, don't add up to a quality sorority experience most women want and deserve.
Additionally, some NPC groups may prefer maintaining a quality of membership that, even if they are allowed, will never include having chapters at a CC. What impression of NPC sororities does that give to a CC student desiring NPC sorority membership?