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Originally Posted by violetpretty
There are other types of sororities that offer a somewhat similar experience to NPC depending on the campus, but NPHC does not fall into this category.
The oversimplified way aspirants join NPHC groups (at least, the successful ones) is to individually research them all and keep their opinions private until they decide which one to pursue (even then, it's a quiet process until she crosses or is initiated). A woman who tries to join Zeta Phi Beta at first and is unsuccessful will not have success trying to join Delta Sigma Theta. A woman would be similarly received if she pursued Alpha Kappa Alpha after going through NPC recruitment. Aspirants choose to pursue XYZ or nothing, and that includes other types of social GLOs. Aspirants may try more than once, and sometimes are accepted after the first attempt, but many will meet the reality of not being Greek, and most aspirants know that is a possibility, though the NPHC has its share of entitled snowflakes as well.
I know it sounds like the complete opposite from the "keep an open mind" mantra we preach in the NPC, and it is. I see you're trying to be inclusive by suggesting NPHC as another way to be Greek, but it does not have the effect you intend.
I'm sure there are women who aren't immediately sure if they'd like to join an NPC or NPHC sorority. I believe there was a story on GC a few years ago about a woman who went through NPC/local recruitment at NYU before becoming a Sigma Gamma Rho, but the username escapes me. Such cases are the exception. MAYBE you could convince an NPHC chapter that you went through NPC recruitment to meet people or to decide if it is for you. The truth is, if a woman is NPHC material, it won't need to be suggested to her. She will find it herself.
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NPHC organizations very well could fit into this category and are more likely to be so on campuses where they are not the only kind of organization.
If, for example, there is a man or woman, African American, who was not raised among African Americans socially, and did first semester fall rush and for some reason just didn't fit, lost interest, whatever, it's not outside the realm of possibility that four semesters later, they could find what they're looking for in an NPHC org. There's nothing wrong with having that conversation with someone.
Campuses are changing, as are the students pursuing membership, and what may have been the norm for many of us as undergraduates may very well have been a problem.
In other words, I agree with DubaiSis.
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