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Originally posted by LatinaAlumna
That was me, and yes, we have explicit rules about it, and you might be surprised at just how easy it is to discover something like this.
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That's good... then your organzation should have no problems with former members of other local, regional or NPC national organizations seeking membership into your sorority. If other types of sororities (like locals or NPCs) don't have explicit rules about it, and it is something they need to prevent from happening for whatever reasons, it is up to them to make those regulations just like NPC did when they decided women cannot pursue membership into another NPC sorority if they are already an initiated member of another NPC sorority.
I probably wouldn't be surprised as to how easy it is to discover things like that, because it happens all the time -- some sororities find that pnm's embellished their recruitment application forms.... that they were members of other NPC organizations... and other things like that. The neat thing about GLOs is our networks, so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard at all to discover something to see if they were members of a previous organization.
Looking back at your first post in the thread you posted: "I also don't agree with people leaving their organization especially if the sorority is national, because the sorority is bigger than just the chapter someone is initiated at. They probably could have found other ways to be involved if they were not getting along with members of their local chapter."
I asked this earlier in the thread, but I guess it got buried -- why does it matter if the organization the person was previously a member of was national (like a different national conference like NPC) or local? You said "especially if the sorority is national"... I can understand that it might be different because there are obviously more chapters than the few that a local or regional might have, but what is the real difference? Locals have everything nationals do - except some rules and the obvious lack of a national HQ and multiple chapters.
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Even if NALFO were to become a governing council and had guidelines for various things, I doubt they would have a specific guideline about disafilliating from one NALFO sorority to join another NALFO sorority...because...well...people just don't do that. I'm not saying that no woman EVER has, but usually if a Latina sorority member decides to leave, she just walks away from greek life and goes her own way. In the majority of cases that I know of, the woman just went inactive. I've only heard of one case in which someone actually turned in her letters.
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Do they have policies on members disaffiliated barring them from joining another type of organization? NPC? locals? I'm just curious so I thought I would ask. A KDChi member posted (a few posts ago) that they do not accept anyone who has previously been a member of another GLO which I thought was interesting because some of the women who left the same local I left joined KDChi.
Also - going "inactive" ranges from group to group. I can't speak for any other NPC or any local organizations, but in ADPi, you need extremely special circumstances in order to file for inactive status and that status is good for only 1 year. So sometimes women turn in their pins because there is no other way... we can't just go inactive whenever we can't put forth the time committment or when something isn't going right in the chapter and we just want a break.. or any other random situations like that. Any ADPi's please correct me if this is not correct, that is just the way I always understood it. This policy varies from group to group - whether they are national, latina, local, whatever, so sometimes when things aren't working out.. or some members are unhappy or they don't have the time to commit to it, sometimes the option is only to deactivate. If members left just because they didn't have the time committment for it, or something like that, it is highly unlikely (IMHO) that those women would go out to start another sorority or join another one. Usually the women (IMHO and experience) who either join other organzations or start new ones is because they saw something in the organization (the one they are either joining or starting up) that they didn't have in their previous GLO that meant enough to them to move forward and join or begin the building process.