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Originally Posted by naraht
That's a fundamental difference to me. The (international) NPC supports individual school NPCs, the (international) NIC doesn't support school NICs. (I'm guessing the NPHC are closer to the NIC model).
As for the rights to Baird's. I'm *really* not sure how keeping the ownership of both the name "Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities" and the copyrights of the post 1923 editions of the Manual generates one dime of revenue to the NIC.
While making a good new Baird's would be easier than it was in 1905 (for example), most of that is because the chapter list and organization descriptions are easily available through the web. In fact, I would argue that at least 70% of the contents of a 2015 Baird's would be quite reasonable to have on Wikipedia (and what isn't would fit well on a private wiki)
In fact if Baird's didn't exist, someone in 2015 trying to get the information similar to what Baird did in 1879 would spend about 3 hours on the web.
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Bairds has not put out a new edition in a very long time so excludes the Latino and Asian GLOs. In the last Bairds some of the history has been lost even though it is the most pages ever printed by the book.
But whether LXA dropped out of NIC may or not matter as it does not seem to have hurt KS and PDT.
Granted NIC is not a NPC, maybe, it has lost it's usefulness for Fraternities. It is not a ruling body as is the NPC which dictates to Sororities as it does. The NIC is more of a lobying organization than a governing body like NPC.
Maybe, just maybe it is time for a change within both groups?
Just food for thought. And I support LXA for the move that they made.
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