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Originally Posted by DrPhil
My sorority is one of the NPHC sororities that prohibits dual NPHC and NPC membership. They were probably making rules based on what they saw occurring at the time. This needs to be updated to include other councils and conferences to reflect what has happened at some schools and alumnae chapters where people are being denied membership if they are already a member of a general sorority that boasts lifetime commitment.
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While they are organizations that are a lifetime commitment, would that still bar someone from joining two GLOs from two different councils?
For example, my roommate is in a chemistry-focused (coed) fraternity and while I'm not sure whether they're officially classified as social or not, they do A LOT of social activities almost on the same level as an IFC fraternity. She's mentioned before how girls have pledged and initiated who were also in NPC, and it's allowed, but not too encouraged. This is not to say that there are ill feelings towards it, but rather that the fraternity would prefer take members who can devote a lot of time to their fraternity.
My roommate often talks about how people will go through the process and become initiated and then almost drop off the face of the earth after that. She says a lot of people do this so they can put their affiliation on their resume since they're members for life after initiation.
I've seen on many threads on GC about how it's almost completely acceptable to be in both NPC and a professional GLO (such as the chemistry fraternity mentioned above). The chemistry fraternity is clearly also a lifetime commitment organization, so I don't see why that aspect would make a difference when it comes to other GLOs that aren't NPC.
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