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Originally posted by FSUZeta
typically, npc sororities expanding on a certain campus will have their events after the formal recruitment period and some of their expansion team will be present during part of the formal recruitment to briefly speak to the pnms about their groups colonization and to observe how that campus does formal recruitment. that is standard procedure. if pnms chose to drop out of formal recruitment, it was their decision to make, just as signing or not signing a bid card would be. i think that maybe you were misinformed about the colonizing sorority's national officers going around telling pnms to drop out and join them. the women who serve our groups as national officers have had many years of training to reach the offices they hold, and are well versed in national panhellenic recruitment rules. heck, most of them have helped write those rules! the reputation of their particular group and promoting greek life in a positive way is uppermost in their minds. instead of resenting the new group, try to get to know these women. maybe your chapter could throw a party to welcome them . you will probably have a lot in common and make some new friends. the success of this new colony is good for all the sororities on your campus as it makes the panhellenic system stronger.
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As hard as it is to lose girls to another chapter, please realize that everyone needs to look at what is the best for Panhellenic. I served as a delegate on Panhellenic the year my chapter closed, and it was the hardest thing to have a positive attitude and not be bitter, but I knew that as a delegate I wasn't looking at what was best for my chapter, necessarily, but what was best for Panhellenic as a whole. Executive Council meetings (in Delta Gamma called CMT) was where I needed to be concerned with what was best for our chapter.
I know that it's hard to go through and see people "campaigning" to have girls drop out, but that's not what they're there for... They're there to get the girls that wouldn't truly be happy in any chapter at the school already. If you didn't have a market for a new chapter, why expand?
At USC (and probably many other SEC schools as well), there are different chapters for everyone. Rho Chi's usually tell girls to "go where is comfortable." I went DG, because that's where I felt like I fit in. If I rushed now, since DG is not on campus, I have no clue where I'd go, because I felt like no other sorority matched me as perfectly as DG. THAT'S where the expanding chapter comes in. They grab those girls who don't feel a perfect fit with the other sororities. Otherwise, every school would just have one big chapter. Granted, it would promote a lot of diversity within a chapter, but it would kind of miss the point of unity.