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[LatinaAlumna]

I was looking at the competition rules, and this struck me:

"All team members must be 18 years or over, a member in good standing of a nationally recognized service-oriented fraternity or sorority, and in good academic standing at an accredited 4 year college or university."

How is it that a NPC group met the eligibility then? I always see NPC sororities stating that they are social organizations, not service.

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by LatinaAlumna

I was looking at the competition rules, and this struck me:

"All team members must be 18 years or over, a member in good standing of a nationally recognized service-oriented fraternity or sorority, and in good academic standing at an accredited 4 year college or university."

How is it that a NPC group met the eligibility then? I always see NPC sororities stating that they are social organizations, not service.

If that's the case, then Kappa would've been ineligible, because Kappa is a SOCIAL fraternity. FWIW, four of the five NPHC fraternities are also in the NIC, which is a collective body of social fraternities.

But the whole social/service element of NPHC orgs is another discussion in itself.

[rhoyaltempest]

Originally Posted by KAPital PHINUst

If that's the case, then Kappa would've been ineligible, because Kappa is a SOCIAL fraternity. FWIW, four of the five NPHC fraternities are also in the NIC, which is a collective body of social fraternities.

But the whole social/service element of NPHC orgs is another discussion in itself.

I think you can safely say that all of the D9 are "service oriented" without claiming to be service organizations. It's all in the semantics. We describe ourselves (see our website) as social and service since being about service since the beginning and being founded as a professional org initially, not a social one, but we don't claim to be a service organization in the way that Gamma Sigma Sigma is for example.

Bottom line, this show was targeted to our audience and being D9 exclusively at first, as demonstrated by Sprite advertising. It wasn't until later that people started realizing that it wasn't just NPHC. Even now, some folks who haven't been following closely are shocked to find out that it wasn't just a D9 production.

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

I think you can safely say that all of the D9 are "service oriented" without claiming to be service organizations. It's all in the semantics. We describe ourselves (see our website) as social and service since being about service since the beginning and being founded as a professional org initially, not a social one, but we don't claim to be a service organization in the way that Gamma Sigma Sigma is for example.

Bottom line, this show was targeted to our audience and being D9 exclusively at first, as demonstrated by Sprite advertising. It wasn't until later that people started realizing that it wasn't just NPHC. Even now, some folks who haven't been following closely are shocked to find out that it wasn't just a D9 production.

Watch out. GSS is going to win next year!

[KAPital PHINUst]

Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest

I think you can safely say that all of the D9 are "service oriented" without claiming to be service organizations. It's all in the semantics. We describe ourselves (see our website) as social and service since being about service since the beginning and being founded as a professional org initially, not a social one, but we don't claim to be a service organization in the way that Gamma Sigma Sigma is for example.

The same argument can be made for NIC and NPC orgs as well. Theoretically, all fraternities and sororities can be service oriented, but the fact is, we are, by Internal Revenue Code, if nothing else, social fraternities and sororities.

Bottom line, this show was targeted to our audience and being D9 exclusively at first, as demonstrated by Sprite advertising. It wasn't until later that people started realizing that it wasn't just NPHC. Even now, some folks who haven't been following closely are shocked to find out that it wasn't just a D9 production.

That may well be, but nothing in the eligibility rules indicated that you did not had to be a member of an NPHC org to compete. I'm sure if that was the case, such would have been clearly indicated in the rules.