DEKE?

[Jen]

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[PenguinTrax]

Deke is one of the few large national fraternities that are not affiliated with the NIC. They withdrew their membership many years ago.

[Seminole Pike]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon also withdrew from the NIC back in the 1970-80s, but eventually rejoined. My fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, considered withdrawing about the same time, but I'm not certain if we actually did or not. Delta Kappa Epsilon is an old fraternity with much power and political influence (both President Bushes, Dan Quayle, President Ford). It was DKE that independently took the initiative to organize their political friends to get the Freedom of Speech & Association Act passed by Congress in 1998. That is the law that prevents universities from punishing you because you're in a fraternity or sorority; the law that says we can't be forced to delay rush. On the national level, I'm told there seems to be a lot of dissention among NIC members over the issues of how to respond to the (real or perceived) abuse of fraternity & sorority chapters by administrators.

[Seminole Pike]

Sigma Alpha Epsilon also withdrew from the NIC back in the 1970-80s, but eventually rejoined. My fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, considered withdrawing about the same time, but I'm not certain if we actually did or not. Delta Kappa Epsilon is an old fraternity with much power and political influence (both President Bushes, Dan Quayle, President Ford). It was DKE that independently took the initiative to organize their political friends to get the Freedom of Speech & Association Act passed by Congress in 1998. That is the law that prevents universities from punishing you because you're in a fraternity or sorority; the law that says we can't be forced to delay rush. On the national level, I'm told there seems to be a lot of dissention among NIC members over the issues of how to respond to the (real or perceived) abuse of fraternity & sorority chapters by administrators.

[33girl]

Actually DKE rejoined the NIC recently.
http://www.dke.org/newsl7.html

Part of the problem was that they spent tons of their own $$$ fighting freedom of association lawsuits and got no help from the NIC. I'm assuming that has been resolved somehow.

Originally posted by Seminole Pike:
On the national level, I'm told there seems to be a lot of dissention among NIC members over the issues of how to respond to the (real or perceived) abuse of fraternity & sorority chapters by administrators.

Now that's an understatement...DKE for one has pretty much said they will go dry when hell freezes over, and then you have other fraternities that completely embraced it. Among other issues. It seems like NPC never has those issues....I don't know whether that's due to gender or size, but sometimes I almost wish there was more discussion, if not necessarily dissension.

[RxyChrldr]

The DEKEs at my school (U of Washington) got their recognition withdrawn for some nasty hazing..tsk tsk!!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I believe the reason there is less dissention among NPC groups is because there are a few unanimous agreements, but the other resolutions are not as binding.

If you read the wording carefully, each resolution is simply a recommendation to the member groups or a recommendation to the college panhellenics.

For example, NPC resolved to support the fraternities that were going dry. Each member group interpreted this differently. Some groups passed resolutions that collegiate chapters could not have events at fraternity houses that were not dry. Others passed resolutions that as long as the events were dry, they could be at non-dry (wet?) houses. Some groups did not choose to pass anything at all.

I think that NPC cuts to the chase and passes resolutions with very little discussion. Realistically, it would be very detrimental for a member group to relinquish its NPC membership.