[pirepresent]

I would love to see the NPC groups come up with a consolidated database of ALL their membership, complete with social security numbers, DOBs, names of parents etc. Because there is NO fail-proof way of preventing that from happening, unless someone actually sees a sister they knew to be in one house being a sister in another house. Otherwise, there's just no way to check EVERY SINGLE GIRL. Most NPC groups get between 1,000 and 5,000 new members every year. It's not like Phi Sig can just call up Zeta Tau Alpha and start reading names off, and have Zeta Tau Alpha go through ALL their membership records. And then when we're done checking with Zeta Tau Alpha, that we can call up Delta Delta Delta, and Kappa Delta, and Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Chi Omega, and so on and so forth.

It's just not feasible. And I would guess 99% of initiated members in NPC groups KNOW they can't join another, so they know rushing again is wrong - of COURSE they're not going to disclose that they were in another group. And if you're talking to a girl during rush and she says, oh, I transferred from XXX school, you're not going to be thinking, was she in a house there? At least, I wouldn't, because you dont like to think that people would lie. But some people definetly have no problem with that.

I myself have seen it happen - a friend of a friend went through rush at her school, and joined an amazing house. Loved it, but transferred to Syracuse because she wanted to be in the communications program there. No animosity with her old house - they just didnt have a chapter at SU. So she rushed again as a sophomore and joined a completely different house, never deactivated her membership in her old one. Still gets both newsletters.