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Originally posted by ZChi4Life:
sctroy,
That is pretty much how it is at my school. We are recognized as a sorority, but we can't participate in events that are in part w/ NPC/IFC/NPHC orgs (i.e. Greek Week, Greek Move-in, etc). It kinda sucks I guess, but not really. Since we are independent, we don't have to meet the guidelines of the councils or pay extra money to be a part of it (I'm not sure if orgs have to pay to be a part of these councils or not...I'm just saying). Also, the fact that we are multicultural makes us hestitant about wanting to be a part of them anyway. Well as far as the NPC goes, I think we don't even qualify because we don't have enough chapters and are not apart of the actual NPC or whatever. THen for the groups in the NPHC (they're actually under another name cuz there's a local group that is a part of the council), they are predominantly, historically black. So for us to be a part of their council, well we'd be defeating our purpose since we are a multicultural org. Soooo, we remain independent.
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We are the same as you in the fact that it isn't a bad thing that we are associated with NPC at some schools. At the schools we are associated with the Greek Council, we have a good relationship. At the other schools, there are several reasons that we don't want to be a part of them. That is another issue for another day. Also for us replace multiculture with professional and the same thing applies to us - it would defeat our purpose to be associated with the some of the social groups. So we also remain mostly independent.