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Originally Posted by Firehouse
Here's the way it works.
1. Federal law permits a fraternity to organize on the campus of a public university. No law requires the IFC to recognize any fraternity. Of course, everyone has to be sensitive to due process. See: the Freedom of Association Act of 1996.
2. The NIC tries to influence it's member chapters, and by extension the local IFC, to embrace expansion. The theory is that aggressive, new fraternities will energize the student population and enhance the overall standing and strength of fraternities. There is truth to this. Most fraternities that fail do so becasue no one wants to join. They're not a good "product". A new fraternity on campus can be an exciting and attractive product.
3. A private university is not held to all these requirements. For instance, a private school can declare deferred rush and make it stick. A public university would be challenged, probably with success, if they tried to impose deferred rush.
4. NIC is a weak organization, and does not have the authority or power to enforce its declarations on any campus. They depend on their ability to influence the various IFCs through persuasion.
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NIC members can be sanctioned, including being kicked out of NIC, for the actions of individual chapters on this issue. If fraternity ABC has a chapter at State U that votes against expansion, fraternity ABC could demand (and NIC could enforce) that State U chapter lose their charter. That is extreme of course, but possible. I know it has been discussed before. If a private school has no expansion policy, and IFC prohibits expansion, the same scenario would apply. I know I've been approached, and have approached other fraternities on this subject.
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