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Originally posted by Blue Violet
I guess NIC doesn't have a rule like NPC about not having been initiated into two groups.
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Section 1(a)(3) of the NIC's By-Laws requires that member fraternities be "mutually exclusive of and in competition with other general fraternities, meaning that no member fraternity shall initiate a member of another fraternity until such time as the second fraternity shall have been formally notified in writing by the national office of the first fraternity that a candidate for membership in the second fraternity is no longer regarded as a member of the fraternity." (My $0.02 -- this seems like a much more reasonable policy than NPC's strict ban under all circumstances.)
As for aephi's example, it doesn't sound like they de-activitated with the intention of joining a different national. She said that the deaffiliations happened 12 years ago, that the de-affiliated brothers formed a local fraternity, and that the local fraternity is now (12 years later) a chapter of a different NIC fraternity. Unless the local joined NIC Fraternity 2 more than seven or eight years ago, then all of the brothers who had originally pledged NIC Fraternity 1 would have graduated by the time NIC Fraternity 2 came into the picture.