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interesting conversation. I see both sides of the argument. I definitely see DrPhil's point - while this could work NPHC -> NPC, I don't see this as successful the other way around. The formats of the new member process is too different - NPCs is streamlined in a way that most people could learn how it works but I don't know if an outsider can learn potentially 9 different NPHCs organizations' way of membership. The length of time alone is enough of a a difference: a couple weeks at the start of the semester versus a few weeks/months.
I was pretty active on my campus and while NPC wasnt the route I took in the road of Greekdom, it doesn't make me totally inept in learning how to be a Rho Chi or whatever your campus calls the role. I can't imagine any NPHCer who was not down for Pan(H/h)ellenic spirit to jump at this chance, and im sure there are just as many NPCers who would o_O at me escorting PNMs from house to house.
Again, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world as an NPHC member, and even if this was a silly "hey let's do diversity today!" ploy by said college, OK. Is it on my radar? No, because my biases will lean towards my greek culture. But I see the value in students becoming greek regardless of which council they chose, and ideally I'd set that aside.
I know, multicolored mini-horses and all that. In my head, this is akin to orientation leaders. Everyone's experience on their campus is their own, with respect to gender, race, religion, major, etc. But the role, at its core, is to show students around and give information about the campus. Now, if a student asked me something specific about MY experience, what's my obligation to giving the university's perspective versus my own?
Again, I see both sides.
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Do you know people? Have you interacted with them? Because this is pretty standard no-brainer stuff. -33girl
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