Help Finding a non-NPC Sorority to Affiliate With!

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Ch2tf

Calm down it was a question. While I am familiar with the other thread that luvntpa started, I had not seen her roll call thread. Be easy, sheesh.

Who's not calm? You asked, I answered.

[33girl]

OK, I'm gonna stop being PC and say it.

I went to a school with a smaller Greek system with a very diverse variety of types of people in the sororities - I don't mean racially, I mean more personality wise. If you went the whole way through rush and weren't offered a bid from ANYONE, either you really misjudged your options (i.e. you thought the top group was really going to give you a bid when they were just stringing you along and so you were rude to the rest of the groups because you thought you had it "in the bag") or you were pretty socially backward.

The OP is presenting her group as a group of awesome ladies that got dicked over by the big bad Sorority Mean Girls, when in actuality some of them probably were dismissive to sororities that offered them membership. She herself says that she turned down a bid.

Bringing a new NPC does not change the girls on your campus - if the XYZs at the school down the road are all fashion plate student leaders with Porsches, it doesn't mean that just because you bring XYZ to your campus that it's going to change the fact that 75% of your school is on financial aid and wear sweatpants 6 days out of 7.

[Drolefille]

Yeah, and I suspect it's not quite as the OP presented it as far as the girls being skipped or what have you. But if the NPC system is struggling there AND there are other non-NPC options well... Actually I think a lot depends on the health of the current non-NPCs. Are they struggling as well? Are they very niche groups? Do they haze? Just as bringing on a new NPC won't change Greek culture, bringing on a new non-NPC won't necessarily either. If those non-NPCs are flourishing, or if they're faltering because of their behaviors, then bringing a new group on isn't such a bad idea.

I highly suspect every interest group portrays themselves as girls who just didn't find a home during recruitment... even if it's made up of girls who didn't rush, etc.

[tallgreekalum]

We(GLOs) are all voluntary associations. This is the argument we've made every time a college tries to tell us who to accept as members (single-sex), every time the government tries to treat us like public organizations. While we are free to set up voluntary groups(IFC, Pan-Hel, Panhel, etc) and even extend those voluntary groups on a national or international basis, we cannot be true to our contentions if we do not agree that anyone has that same right. While the NPC sororities have the right to decide amongst themselves their own rules, they cannot expect outsiders to operate by those rules.