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Originally posted by 33girl:
I've put in my 2.5 cents more than once w/ my views on this so I won't bore y'all by reapeating them. I do have one related thought:
I realize that NPC is a conference only and as such cannot make "rules" or "laws" for individual sororities. However, on an issue like this that is so important, I think all 26 sororities should have sat down and hashed things out until they agreed on ONE UNIFORM policy. The varied levels of strictness seem to be a very quick way to incite division and resentment.
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Actually, they did. NPC does have a uniform policy that all the groups have agreed to, but the difference comes of course, in the individual policies. I know NPC made the resolution to support the dry fraternities and all, however, many sororities, such as mine, were already creating more strict policies within themsleves. So, my group has signed on to this NPC reso (to make it binding, all 26 NPC groups' Presidents must sign), but we don't follow it per se because we have our own more strict rule to follow, which happens to also make us follow the NPC rule.
I agree this subject is hard. when I was a consultant, we did try to provide other ideas to the chapters so it could be followed constructively and fully. But, the illegal or unregistered party is always the answer. we try to discourage that, too, because unfortunately, in a court of law, you can say it wasn't a Phi Delt party or a ChiO party or whatever till you're blue in the face, but the jury is not likely to decide in your favor. They do hold greek orgs esponsible even if it wasn't "officially sponsored."