Joining a Service Sorority? - Already in NPC

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Originally Posted by OPhiAGinger

I know this is an old thread but I just stumbled across it as I was researching associate membership in campus panhellenics.

33girl is right. Even if an OPA chapter is a member of their local Panhellenic Council, their members are free to join the NPC chapters there and vice versa. The example that Dreamful Spirit referred to is true, too. But the problem was purely one of time management. She just didn't have time to pledge both organizations at the same time. She had to choose, not because the local Panhellenic Council required it but because she just couldn't keep up with both pledge programs at the same time. There was no restriction by either of the groups she pledged, nor by the Panhellenic Council.

I"ve never run into a school that forbid a student from joining two groups that on other campuses they'd be able to join both, but I'm curious. APO doesn't have any membership limitations in that regard and in fact prior to about the 1960s you often see notes in our National Magazine on how many of the Social Greeks were represented in specific chapters.

My advice to people is generally, Go ahead and join both, just don't join both in the same semester. I had brothers in my APO chapter who had done it in both orders, APO first, then Social and Social first, then APO.