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Originally posted by justme
My understanding is that NPC has a relatively new rule (3-4 years or so old) that says that a group can close its chapter and recolonize within one calendar year without having to repetition Panhellenic or go through a Panhellenic vote. After the one year, the chapter is subject to all of the usual permissions - i.e., the campus must be ready for expansion and the local Panhellenic must vote for expansion - and then there is no guarantee that the chapter that recently closed will be the one selected to expand.
If my understanding of the policy is correct, then I don't blame an NPC group for wanting to reopen a chapter within the year. Otherwise they are risking never returning to that campus, right? If you ask me, NPC may be setting the member organizations up for failure.
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That's exactly the rule I was talking about. I don't think of it as a "setup" - it is the group's choice as to whether or not to do this.
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Originally posted by justme
With that said, I don't really see anything wrong with wanting a new chapter to be able to establish its own identity. How can they do that when everywhere they look, women are wearing letters that don't actually belong to their local chapter? What's so wrong with asking members of the former chapter to quietly fade into the background while this new group of women build their new chapter. Seems to me that letting the "old" chapter members be involved is like seeing a sign on a restaurant, "Under New Management", walking in, and seeing the same hostess, servers, and bartenders... why would I expect the food to taste any differently?
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But the problem with that outlook is, they DO belong to the local chapter. They ARE alumnae of it. Alumnae are alumnae. These women are alumnae, unless the national terminates their membership. There is no "former" chapter - it is the same chapter with different women. To use the restaurant analogy, it's more like if Joe Smith owned a Mexican restaurant, couldn't make money, closed it, and reopened it as an Italian restaurant.