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Originally posted by Sistermadly
On the one hand, I understand that attitude. On the other, and I'm just speaking purely from my personal perception here, how could I possibly say I knew everything there was to know about all of the NPHC sororities without attending each of their interest meetings? Sure, the websites are informative, and there are books and magazine articles available, but these materials can only tell you so much.

It seems that the mental model for the NPC is "get to know the women, then get to know your organization". The model for the NPHC seems to be the exact opposite: "get to know the organization, and then get to know your sisters." Would that be a correct assumption, or am I way off base?

What about attending the meetings just to get a "feel" for the women in the different chapters? Yeah, I know -- you're joining "the whole organization", but for the four years a woman is in college (and the umpteen years after that), she's going to have to put up with the sisters on a chapter/local level. From what I've read/gathered, it's almost like a few folks are saying that even if they hated every member on their campus, the fact that they're an XYZ carries more weight than the interpersonal relationships they might build. If that's true, that's just.... I don't get it.

But that's the great thing about GC - we can learn so much from each other.

I personally don't like that stigma myself. I think its dumb that people assume that just because you go to all the NPHC sorority's informational meetings then you just wanted letters. Because the girls in the chapter play a large role in whether or not someone joins. If the girls in the chapter do not uplift the image and ideals that their sorority was founded on then that would lead me to look somewhere else despite what i thought i wanted to do. If i did my reasearch and wanted to be ABC then i went to campus and saw that the ABC's had a low GPA and didn't do anything on campus and had bad reps why would i want to associate myself with them? I would just look into something else, and i don't see the problem with that because ultimatly you're the one who has to live with your decision not anybody else. I know one of my line sisters went to the informational of XYZ sorority as well as SGRHO and it only solidified her choice. So I agree I don't see the big deal when it comes to that. But outside of informationals and rushes there are plenty of oppertunities to get to know the memebers of the chapter. NPHC orgs have all kinds of different programs that people (perspectives and non perspectives) can attend where they can get a look at the girls and see what they're about and see how they interact with each other, and with others. As far as doing research goes I think what people mean is that when you are deciding what org you want to join you should know the basics about the org but i think also you should know why you want to join this org to begin with. Thats something i think people should do reguardless of what council or what org you decide to join. Figure out why you want to go there and i think that's where the do more reasearch part comes in because in that reasearch you might find the answer. Sorry for the lengthy reply guys.