Dual Memberships

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Buttonz,
Here's another take on this. Calling the orgs HQ might get the whole chapter in trouble. It is quite possible that the members knew of her previous affilitation and decided to ignore it.

Do you want to have a whole chapter of women angry with you? Seriously, I suggest you PM a member of that org here on GC and let them take it from there.

You don't want it to become a racial issue.

I don't see how this situation is any different than if this woman had joined another NPC versus an NPHC. I don't see it as a racial issue at all, I see it as an issue of a woman who knowingly deceived two groups that either frown upon or outrightly ban dual membership.

If the members in her new org knew of her previous affiliation and igonored it, that's for their HQs to handle and if they get in trouble then oh well. It's not buttonz' problem that they broke the rules. I would be happy if I were in that org and somebody notified me about someone's membership in an NPC org, as it would allow me to weed out a member that had been potentially deceitful.

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet2

Why is it anyone's business that she joined another group? It is a personal matter. I'm playing devil's advocate, and a little curious why you people are so upset about it. If it doesn't harm SDT or the "she who must not be named" NPHC, why the drama?

It does harm SDT and the other org, and that's exactly everyone's problem with it. There's a thing called ritual and lifetime membership. I would think most members of a GLO -- and certainly on a National level -- take ritual and the idea of lifetime membership very seriously. The idea of dual membership, at least in my mind, degrades these two elements of sorority membership and I'm pretty sure their nationals would agree with me.

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

I don't see how this situation is any different than if this woman had joined another NPC versus an NPHC. I don't see it as a racial issue at all, I see it as an issue of a woman who knowingly deceived two groups that either frown upon or outrightly ban dual membership.

If the members in her new org knew of her previous affiliation and igonored it, that's for their HQs to handle and if they get in trouble then oh well. It's not buttonz' problem that they broke the rules. I would be happy if I were in that org and somebody notified me about someone's membership in an NPC org, as it would allow me to weed out a member that had been potentially deceitful.

You may not considered it a racial issue, but other may especially if the chapter finds out that Buttonz made the call. And let's not be naive here. If that chapter is disciplined, those ladies are not going to be happy campers anyway. So don't add more fuel to the fire by having a NPC member being the one to contact HQ.

And notice I didn't say HQ should not be contacted. But only a member of DST would know the protocol for making that contact. In reality the call would not go directly to HQ.