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Originally Posted by skylark
To rcnjinterest:
If there are already other NPCs on campus, have you participated in formal recruitment? While it may be alluring to start up something brand new, your campus already has 8 sororities (I recognize 4 as NPCs) and I'm wondering why you've been "told" that you can't bring a new NPC to campus. Is it because national orgs have been struggling to keep quota up in recent years? If so, then I would think very strongly about why you think your campus could support another group. Are you *truly* filling a niche not being filled, or have you discounted existing groups based on their stereotyped reputations on campus?
Keep in mind that starting up and keeping a new group on campus takes a lot of work (likely more work than fixing a couple problems with an already established group) and it isn't just work that will need to be done by you and the girls you've got right now... it will be a lot of work for girls who will be on campus 5 years from now after you've left, and it would be a shame to see a group die out when its enthusiastic founders graduate. Just make sure you're doing it for the right reasons and you've already checked out the campus's current options before you take on such a challenge.
(And I'm also wondering if this poster is part of the Facebook group of girls mentioned in another thread)
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Both myself and the other original founder of our group of girls have gone through formal recruitment. I recieved a bid to one of the npc groups on campus, but it was not one that I was interested in being a part of for various reasons. After attending what we were told was the "largest recuitment process ever" at our school, many sororities took very small pledge classes and many girls were "unchosen". It happened that many of those girls were ones with whom I had bonded with through the week of recruitment. It is because of this that some of us felt that there was a need for another option to be brought to campus.
You're right that we have eight sororities currently on campus, four being NPCs. The other four are multicultural and have their own recruitment processes and regulations. After talking with the ONE greek life staff member we have at our school, she told us that she had contacted NPC, and as you presumed, she was told that our four groups were not meeting quota and as such they did not want to bring a competiting group onto campus at this time. We thought this was kind of interesting, considering what we were told at the time of recruitment.
And I agree, I wouldn't want to start something just to see it dissolve a few years after I've graduated. Our interest group as of now has different grade levels involved, so hopefully that would help to combat that issue, but I don't think there's really any guarantee.
Anyway, like I said I'm really just starting to research the non-npc options so I apologize if my post was awkward or unclear. As one of the "leaders" so to speak of our group, I offered to sort of head up the investigation.
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