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Originally posted by Eupolis
NIC, just like NPC, forbids people who have joined a member organization from ever under any circumstances joining a second member organization.
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While that might be an actual rule, I dont know how strictly the "ever, under any circumstances," part is enforced.
There are honorary memberships that take place as alumni, and its with the consent of both orgs. Example, Chuck Psyser was initiated as an Undergratue member of Delta Tau Delta, and was initiated years later as a faculty advisor at the University of the South as a Lambda Chi. He now serves as Lambda Chi's official Historian. I asked him about this in 1995 and he told me that it was done by approval of both orgs, with the understanding that, "while he was with one group, he would not discuss the secrets of the other group."
I would imagine that some of our groups would not be opposed to this situation if there was some compelling reason to doing it, financial, or emotional, for example: a man was initiated as a Sigma Chi and his son was an ATO pledge and died before intiation, and ATO wanted to initiate dad as an honor to the son. That stuff is prolly more common than we know about because most of us might be uncomfortable with the knowledge that some people had dual memberships. I can even remember hearing of one of the NPC groups who had initiated a man who had been instramental to their founding. I believe in reality its not that big of a deal.
I would rather have a man who was initiated as a Sig Ep who had helped out our chapter and been very concerned with our chapter and devoted time, energy and money to it become an honorary member of my org than some punk ass 18 year old who might tell his gf stuff about rit, or get initiated, loose interest and ghost, or even have to expell a member for conduct unbecoming. Wouldnt you? Its not so black and white... especially at the Headquarters level of ops.
Now, why I dont agree withthe following, its not out of the realm of possibility. I also dont know how isolated of an occurence it is, but I have I have heard of fraternitiy chapters letting their housemoms watch ritual. (no, this isnt about my chapter...we dont have houses at my school) I once had an NIC consultant tell me when he was a consultant for XXX fraternity he was conducting a scheduled chapter visit at a large school in texas, and his visit happened to coinside with their ritual performance. While preparing to watch ritual with the undergrad memebers, they brought their housemom down to watch. He was like, "WTF?" and they told him shed been watching for years. He made her leave, but I'd bet my next paycheck that she was back at the next ritual performance...and at the request of the undergrads.
Just some things to think about