NPC adding new council members--do you think it could/will happen?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by psy

What do you think? Would a hypothetical new NPC group stand a realistic chance at being admitted, and how might any new additions be received ior change the NPC "landscape"?

Unless KBG kicks into super turbo expansion mode, or SAI/GSS/OPA decide they want to go full out social (not that there is any inkling of this happening whatsoever), conventional wisdom is that there will be contraction rather than expansion.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

4. I'm always interested in how organizations withdraw membership from councils and conferences; and how some organizations rejoin councils and conferences. When reading about fraternities that withdrew from NIC, I always wonder what the "disagreement" was.

I think that when Kappa Sigma withdrew, part of the complaint was that they were having to pay for lots of NIC-sponsored programs that were duplicates of what they already provided for their members. In other words they were sick of ponying up $$ to finance stuff for the smaller fraternities that couldn't afford it. That's really simplifying it and as I said that's only part of it.

[PhoenixAzul]

^ that's my thought.

I am thinking and I can't really come up with a sorority that would really fit the NPC profile plus provide national support and be "competitive". In my mind, the sororities that are outside of the NPC sprouted up BECAUSE they weren't NPC, either because of cultural or religious focus or desire to do their own thing.

Further, the NPC has ways of doing things that aren't the way things are done in other sororities...some require a statement of faith to join, others prefer a more NPHC type intake system and small pledge classes. It would take a huge change on the part of one of the two parties in order for it to mesh.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Unless KBG kicks into super turbo expansion mode, or SAI/GSS/OPA decide they want to go full out social (not that there is any inkling of this happening whatsoever), conventional wisdom is that there will be contraction rather than expansion.

I think that when Kappa Sigma withdrew, part of the complaint was that they were having to pay for lots of NIC-sponsored programs that were duplicates of what they already provided for their members. In other words they were sick of ponying up $$ to finance stuff for the smaller fraternities that couldn't afford it. That's really simplifying it and as I said that's only part of it.

Gamma Sig is constitutionally co-ed, so I'm pretty sure that they would never join the NPC (and for various other reasons, as well).