NIC Government Relations Committee

Mission: To pursue on behalf of NIC, those governmental issues dealing with men's fraternities, their operations and their membership, with a view towards achieving just, fair, and equal treatment under the law and the Constitution with similarly situated citizens, be they undergraduates or alumni.

Committee Members

Name	Fraternity	Position	E-Mail Address
Jim Carey	Zeta Psi	Chairman	RADMCarey@aol.com
Kevin O'Neill	Lambda Chi Alpha	Vice Chairman	KONeill@PattonBoggs.com
Dave Easlick	Delta Kappa Epsilon	Member	dekehq@hotmail.com
Bill Skipper	Kappa Alpha Order	Member	bskipper@asic-dc.com
Mike Ching	Sigma Nu	Member	manddching@mindspring.com
Pat Rea	Beta Theta Pi	Member	prea@idfa.com
Robert B. Nealon	Psi Upsilon	Member	rbnealon@nealon.com
Don Weadon	Delta Kappa Epsilon	Member	dweadon@aol.com

For policy and mission information, contact Jim Carey.

Government Relations Area of Focus

Student Housing

Safety Issues : On-going advocacy for equal treatment under the law regarding equal access to fraternity house safety equipment and equal consideration concerning student housing safety issues under the premise that all student lives are equally valuable and deserve equal safety protection.

Tax Issues : On-going advocacy for equal treatment under the law regarding tax-deduction of donated funds and parity with university and college tax treatment for similarly situated student housing.

Freedom of Speech and Association

1999 Congressional Resolution : Continued advocacy for equal rights under the law for all college and university students, and continued opposition to special regulations and restrictions targeting and profiling fraternity members which are not applied equally to all students at that campus.

Foundations

Tax Treatment : Ongoing advocacy for equal treatment under the law with other educational entities involved in higher education.

NIC Political Demographics

The North-American Interfraternity Conference [NIC] was founded in 1909 and is "an organization of organizations" made up of 72 men's fraternities in the USA, the oldest being Kappa Alpha Society, founded in 1825 at Union College. The NIC's mission is to advocate, promote, and enhance the excellence and effectiveness of the men's college fraternity movement. Through its 72 member fraternities, NIC represents over 350,000 undergraduates at 800+ colleges and universities all across America plus over 4.2 million living alumni located in every State of the Union and every Congressional District. NIC fraternities provide in excess of 3.7 billion dollars in student housing at our 800 campuses at zero cost to those schools or the American taxpayers. They also support their colleges and universities through alumni donations at a rate that is double that of non-fraternity member alumni, donate over 3.5 million hours of volunteer community service annually, and provide millions of dollars in scholarships at zero cost to the colleges and universities, the federal government, or the U.S. taxpayer.

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