NIC Resolution
Resolution on Expansion Policy
The North-American Interfraternity Conference encourages appropriate college officials and/or Interfraternity Councils to consider the following for expansion to a campus:
- be open to all fraternities not currently represented on the campus;
- exclude costly multi-media presentations, financial and housing commitments and political influence;
- recognize that the size of a fraternity or the number of local alumni is not an indication of that fraternity's ability to administer an expansion project;
- respect the right of any organized college group to seek affiliation with the fraternity of its choice; and,
- recognize the constitutional rights of students to associate with a fraternity as guaranteed by the Freedom of Association provision of the United States Constitution.
The North-American Interfraternity Conference, therefore, states its support for open, unrestricted expansion for all college and university fraternity systems, and charges Interfraternity Councils and member fraternities to move toward such a program.
President Pease directed the Executive Vice President of the Conference to call roll at 9:25am. Mr. Williamson identified 51 member fraternities who answered present. A majority vote was established at 26 and a two-thirds vote of those present was established at 34.