Switching Fraternities

[JohnnyCash]

Originally Posted by unDOVEated1920

No you can't. Once youre in a fraternity that for life. How did you become a frat as a freshman? Must not be apart of the divine nine.

*A part

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by JohnnyCash

*A part

Just "part" -- generally doesn't need an article.

[angelfireusanj]

Most of the groups I have seen are the "in it for life" category, if the members practice that is another story. As far as disassociating from a fraternity that is NIC there's a 5 year rule. I don't remember the exact phrasing but if you notify your national of disassociating, you can join another group after 5 years. The point being no one can force loyalty but we can make it practically impossible to make any switch. That being said, even if this guy stayed in college for at least another 5 years, it'd be pretty interesting to see them try and explain that he'd been in college for at least 6 years and wants to join a different org since he didn't care about the previous one. Sometimes, what seems like the easy way out is actually the hardest.

This post is only redundant to 15 of the past 20 or something posts, right?

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by angelfireusanj

As far as disassociating from a fraternity that is NIC there's a 5 year rule. I don't remember the exact phrasing but if you notify your national of disassociating, you can join another group after 5 years.

I've never heard that one before. I've heard of several people jumping between NIC fraternities within 5 years, though.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by angelfireusanj

As far as disassociating from a fraternity that is NIC there's a 5 year rule. I don't remember the exact phrasing but if you notify your national of disassociating, you can join another group after 5 years.

Citation please. I've never seen that rule. The rule that I have seen in the NIC is this one in the NIC by-laws:

Section 1. Membership Requirements.

(a.) Fraternity Membership. To be eligible for membership in the Conference, a fraternity must:

. . .

3. Be mutually exclusive of and in competition with other general fraternities, meaning that no member fraternity shall initiate a member of another fraternity until such time as the second fraternity shall have been formally notified in writing by the national office of the first fraternity that a candidate for membership in the second fraternity is no longer regarded as a member of the fraternity.