Living-in vs Living-out

[33girl]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

As for the insurance...I'm sorry, but I just don't buy that. If that was the case, NPC wouldn't insist that we all had the same rule. Chapters would be able to decide to pay the extra insurance. That's not how it is, and that doesn't add up for me.

Originally Posted by Drolefille

And as for the alcohol, the members of the NPC voted on it, there isn't really an outside entity insisting, there's the group of them agreeing.

The alcohol free housing policy is not an NPC policy - each group has its own policy (which all happen to say pretty much the same thing). Ditto the housing thing. Gotta love peer pressure and forcing by the insurance companies. The groups obviously don't agree on this issue - or they would have all had the same policy when it came to mixers.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The alcohol free housing policy is not an NPC policy - each group has its own policy (which all happen to say pretty much the same thing). Ditto the housing thing. Gotta love peer pressure and forcing by the insurance companies. The groups obviously don't agree on this issue - or they would have all had the same policy when it came to mixers.

Actually it's in the NPC Standards booklet on the website.

http://www.npcwomen.org/resources/pd...ds_booklet.pdf

[33girl]

It says "each member group" makes a policy, not that NPC has a blanket policy it enforces. In other words it's up to the member groups to determine what a "facility" or "housed chapter" is. You could actually take that to mean that a sorority who has a dorm suite (if the campus permits it) could drink their asses off in the dorm.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

It says "each member group" makes a policy, not that NPC has a blanket policy it enforces. In other words it's up to the member groups to determine what a "facility" or "housed chapter" is. You could actually take that to mean that a sorority who has a dorm suite (if the campus permits it) could drink their asses off in the dorm.

This is actually allowed AFAIK. We didn't have a house, we lived in the dorms. We weren't a 'housed chapter." Drinking occurred and I don't believed it was breaking the rules. I could be wrong.

Each NPC member must "require a policy of alcohol-free facilities for housed chapters" is pretty straight forward at least as far as the chapters in houses go which is what the thread is about.

[33girl]

My point is what is and is not a "sorority house" is WIDE open to interpretation as that is written. Which is as it should be - it's up to the groups to define that, not to NPC.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by 33girl

My point is what is and is not a "sorority house" is WIDE open to interpretation as that is written. Which is as it should be - it's up to the groups to define that, not to NPC.

I get that to an extent, I'm just saying that it'd be really unlikely to determine that a house wasn't a house. Whereas a dorm or other living situation is less likely to be so clear cut. Which means that though each member has a policy, odds are very good said policy includes dry houses because of the NPC rules. Honestly it's probably easier just to ask if any NPC sorority allows alcohol in houses and get an answer that way.