[PenguinTrax]

Blackball is too harsh a term and completely inappopropriate in this context. In wanting to attain membership in a National Panhellenic Conference group, a local must agree to follow the NPC expansion guidelines. It sounds like the local Panhellenic did just that. Just because a local group wants to affiliate with a national, it's not cut and dried simple. The campus must take all factors into consideration and it looks like they did. It's very rare for a local group to be considered for campus expansion the first time they apply to Panhellenic. The local group should perservere, join as an associate member and continue to grow. As the campus numbers go up, the need for expansion will become more evident and the issue can be put to a vote next year.