Well here's another NPC girl putting her opinon out there.
My chapter was a local, back in the day. The reasoning behind the decision to search for a national sorority was the "times were a changing", they were the only local "social" organization, sat on Panhellenic and played by NPC rules. They began as a "little sister" group and founded their organization about 11 years ago. The campus culture at ECU was ready to expand and they took the oppurtunity to better the chapter and the campus.
I personally feel that a local organization has its benifits, but a National sorority has endless oppurtunites and networking capabilities, not to mention, our KD chapter gave a scholarship to a non-KD when we came on to campus, our local could not have afforded that. And our dues are not expensive, not when you measure our lifetime membership and what we recieve from being a KD.
We lucked out because at the time tons of NPC groups were looking to expand so we got to be very selective. We chose Kappa Delta and it has been the best thing that has happend in my life. We now have 125 chapters and 400 Alumnae chapters, so I have sisters EVERYWHERE!
Even the idea to know that there are 170,000 other KDs out there amazes me and every day I find out something else that makes me love KD even more. I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's nice to know my chpater is a small part of a larger group and we all work for one common goal. I love Kappa Delta and would have never had the chance to be one if our local was never here, so for that I am thankful, but in our situation our local had to do someting to stay on top and KD was the right move, FOR US...not everyone!
[This message has been edited by ecukd (edited March 14, 2001).]
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