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Originally posted by UCLAblondeGPhiB
I'm confused....
I've never really thought about the fact that I don't really know all the of the IFC rules regarding depledging/dissafiliated/etc. and joining another house later.
With PNC sororities, you can pledge one house, and as long as you 'depledge' before initiation, you have to wait one calendar year and then you can join another house.
Anyway... so is the fraternity system less cut-and-dry? It seems odd to me that IFC would allow someone to initiate and know all the 'secrets' of more than one house.
Could someone clarify the initiation thing?
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First, as ktsnake says, the NIC (IFCs are campus councils, NIC is the international council) is not a governing body. It is an advocacy/mutual support organization.
When a fraternity joins the NIC, it does agree to some rules. One of these is that an NIC fraternity will not knowingly initiate a man who has previously been initiated by another NIC fraternity. But NIC policies allow one exception to this rule: one NIC fraternity can initiate someone who was once initiated by another NIC fraternity if the national HQ of the first fraternity informs the national HQ of the second fraternity, in writing, that the guy in question is no longer a member of the first fraternity.
That's NIC policy. Some NIC member fraternities have their own stricter policies -- they will not knowingly initiate a man previously initiated by another fraternity period, even if the man is no longer a member of the first fraternity and has the letter to prove it. In other words, these NIC fraternities, by their own governing documents, foreclose the possibility of taking advantage of the exception allowed by the NIC.