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Originally posted by sugar and spice
Untrue. I think we've discussed this on the board before, and the rule is that the 13th chapter has to be at least two years old -- NOT that the youngest chapter has to be. A chapter could petition if they had, say, a 16th chapter that was only a week old, as long as their 13th chapter was at least two years old.
A more interesting question would be whether or not a sorority like Ceres or Phi Sigma Rho (who currently are close to meeting the criteria, or DO meet it) would be interesting in competing with the NPC sororities when they have a special focus. Something like this works in the NIC because of their more relaxed governing rules, but I don't know if it would fly in the NPC or NPHC.
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I don't know about Ceres, but I can't imagine Phi Sigma Rho doing rush with the rest of the NPC, since you have to be an engineer/architect to rush. That would mean they would cut probably a large percentage of women from the beginning. Also, a lot of schools don't let freshmen into the college of engineering, which is why they tend to have a lot of upperclass rushees. I also don't think they would join, because one of their big "plugs" to potential members is that they are less time consuming than NPC organizations and that you have to have a college gpa of 2.0 to rush.
ETA: clarification
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