[33girl]

First off the reason that there are usually more fraternities than sororities is because they do not place the same focus on "equality" that the NPC groups do. If fraternity ABC has 20 members and XYZ has 100, as long as their nationals don't object NIC as a whole really doesn't care. Most campuses do pairings based on size - the fraternities would rather work with another group than not be paired at all.

I admire your Greek affairs not allowing another NPC group to come to the school. They obviously are looking at things like years of support to the campus and alumnae satisfaction, rather than allowing two groups to be scuttled because they aren't campus "favorites." A lot of people forget that a chapter isn't just the women who are there at the time, it's years worth of alumnae. Not only that, it's against NPC ideals to let a new group in when one is struggling, let alone two.

Has your group looked past the "status" of these two groups to things like their aim, motto, philanthropy? One of them may be interested in taking you all as a group. Starting a brand-new group is very, very difficult - not only that, depending on the group chosen, they may not choose all of you as colony members. Joining a current group in a block eliminates that.

Think about it - would you rather be known as the women who turned around a bad situation to the benefit of the system, or the women who hastened the deaths of two chapters and caused lots of hurt feelings in the Greek community?