My local chapter will never affiliate with a national. The reason my sorority was started was because our founding members were pledges of a national group. They did not like how things were run and broke themselves off and even took a member from the existing group. The group that they broke away from is no longer on campus. Over the years my local sorority has done very well and we've been around 13 years. NPC tried to expand more sororities at our school in the early to mid 90's. Kappa Kappa Gamma was very interested in us but my sorority is very dead set on not affiliating with another group. It's not that we have anything against NPC, we just like the little extra freedom we have. We can change our rules if we don't like them and $10 a month is very cheap! We do see some of the advantages of belonging to a national group but we are very satisfied with staying local.
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