I don't know if this can be explained. Instead of studying for my Statistics final, I'm thinking about this...I have a few possible reasons.
1). Members of NPC groups usually Rush/are initiated fairly early in their collegiate careers (like, first semester), while NPHC members usually can't join until their sophomore years or later. Maybe it's an issue of burn out in some cases? Like, after 4 years of being XYZ, it's time to move on, whereas NPHC members haven't been members as long? I have a cousin who was initiated into an NPHC sorority her senior year in college, and is still really into it (more than other NPHC alumnae I know her age) after two years after school.
2). I'm agreeing with the idea that your life changes. In some cases, you live with members, eat with them--your entire social sphere is the sorority. After college, your life changes--you move, you live alone, you get a real job, you get married. Your sorority just isn't that important to you anymore. Instead of wearing your letters to class every day, you might just wear them around the house. Or instead of having your paddles up in your dorm room, you have your Initiation Certificate framed with your sorority flower in vases. There are more mature ways of expressing sorority pride.
3). There IS a stigma, regardless of whether or not we believe it exists, against Greeks. For some employers, a member wearing letters or carrying things with letters may denote to them irresponsibility (due to the bad rep Greeks have--earned and unearned), or immaturity (it is really a college thing). One would not want their co-workers to believe that "Oh, so-and-so was a 'sorority girl'...she must not be a good employee." And you KNOW people think that.
Okay...I'm rambling. On to Statistics!
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