Local Sorority Looking to Merge with a National Chapter

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Jfurr1126

They would still be non voting members of panhellenic, we wish to be able to vote and hold office.

A campus's local panhellenic can allow a non-NPC group to be full members, vote and hold office. This goes for non-NPC nationals and locals.

If you WANT to go NPC, that's fine...just don't let the school bully you, if that isn't what you want. There are other options. It just sounded from the tone of your previous posts that NPC was being pushed down your throat and you had a lot of concerns.

If you do choose an NPC group, yes they probably will expect you to get your numbers up to be competitive with the other NPC groups on campus before you are fully chartered. And I'll go so far as to say if they don't, look out. They should also give you help with this, as Heather mentioned.

You should also be aware that the women who are currently members of the sorority may not automatically be slotted for exec board positions - they may want everyone to "start fresh" and not give preference to the original sorority members. This depends on the group. Also, your sisters might have to in effect rush again with the national group - that is, some women might not be chosen to become part of the national organization. Again, this depends on the group.

I don't mean to be Debbie Downer, but at a campus where NPC sororities are the size you mentioned they are, you need to really be careful of what you're doing.

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by ASUADPi

You would have to go through the nationals "pledge" (say that in quotation marks because I know not all the nationals call their new members pledges, but for lack of a better word) period which could be 8 weeks all the way to a semester. Then initiation then prepare y'all to rush for the new chapter.

Off topic but SDT's NM period is traditionally six weeks, to get it extended longer you need to get permission from HQ (which my chapter did every semester because of religious reasons, we wouldn't hold anything on Friday or Sat, and FR wasn't until after the Jewish Holidays in the fall at my school).

[BootyKBG]

Originally Posted by 33girl

A campus's local panhellenic can allow a non-NPC group to be full members, vote and hold office. This goes for non-NPC nationals and locals.

If you WANT to go NPC, that's fine...just don't let the school bully you, if that isn't what you want. There are other options. It just sounded from the tone of your previous posts that NPC was being pushed down your throat and you had a lot of concerns.

Thank you for pointing this out! Kappa Beta Gamma is fully involved with NPC on every campus we are a part of and have members representing as officers both on campus panhell as well as other Greek councils. Typically NPC exists on campus to create unity amongst ALL the sororities because the mission is to promote Greek life on campus. It only hurts everyone if they refuse by dividing GLOs and allowing advantages in different ways. (for example, a sorority that isn't involved under NPC doesn't have to abide by rush rules set by NPC). I agree that a campus that simply denies a sorority from colonizing because they are not NPC is behaving ignorantly without being fully aware of the facts. We have full insurance coverage, a risk management program, etc....all the main reasons schools want their locals to "go national."