I agree with Ch2tf except that age doesn't always matter. Unfortunately, there are NPHCers who have been out of college for 16, 30, or 100 (
) years who feel that their chapter is the be-all and end-all. These are often the same people who also haven't been financial or active in the organization since they graduated and their only activity tends to be with their undergraduate chapter and/or hanging with the members they went to college with.
From an NPHC standpoint, that's lame. I can't speak for the culture of nonNPHC organizations because there's also a different process there.
I have a great deal of chapter pride and love my chapter Sorors. However, if it had not been for my undergraduate chapter, I would've pursued Delta through an alumnae chapter. To say that the organizational affiliation doesn't matter and that it's
only about the members of particular chapter is ridiculous from an NPHC standpoint.
There are universities where every NPHC chapter has really cool members that are easy to get along with. That's the common denominator. The differentiating factor is the
national organization and the events that the chapters are campus representations of. If not for the national entity and what it stands for, many of us would've stopped after we joined the gospel choir or SGA because the same cool students and student leaders were found there. That's if we were following
people around versus pursuing lifetime membership in an organization.
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