Starting a New Fraternity or Sorority Chapter

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Originally Posted by taudelt1910

DubaiSis and AnotherKD...thanks for the responses. Dubai, I think you are partly right...I think that different situations call for different things. For example, if a girl who wanted to found an NPC organization on campus but couldn't because of the campus policies, greenbook policies, etc. There are alternatives out there. There are about 5 or 6 sororities that aren't NPC, but have all the features of an NPC organization. They are older orgs as well, BUT for one reason or another NPC has never opened the tradegroup to them. They are valid alternatives to NPC groups. This is JUST an example of how someone who has national experience knows the options that are out there.

As far as the fact that there are other people who "have this thread" that's fine, I will be a copy-cat, it doesn't bother me...at the bottom of MY page it says similar threads were posted in 2008, 2007, 2004, etc.

There should be a thread, heck maybe even a FORUM dedicated to people who want to be Greek and need the information to get there.

Not trying to be back and forth here...

I'm sure you think you're helping these groups out, but did you know that in the past several years there have been at least two of these chapters that have given up their affiliation with one of these groups to become an NPC organization. They wanted the "NPC experience" and didn't get it from the non- NPC group. These are not also ran organizations that girls can turn to just because they can get a quick fix when the NPC turns them down so suggesting that as an alternative at Arkansas (your answer to DubaiSis' scenario) is LUDICROUS. Their are implications and consequences to your actions. Small national organizations have to be deliberate and cautious when competing on a campus with NPC organizations that have far more resources. They haven't joined NPC because we would stifle they're growth when they would have to compete for expansion opportunities like the rest of us do. You can ask the smaller NPCs already how creative they have to be to win out against the bigger NPC groups in that model.