Please note that Randy is referring to written references to APO.

For instance, in my area, we usually say "APhiO", while in other parts of the country people say "A-P-O".

I usually write APO, and say APhiO.

I stand corrected, I didn't realize that APhiO was used in Florida that much.

And I have seen APhiO used in writing quite a bit. I pledged in Region V and used APhiO, spent enough time on Region III staff to say APO instead and then got involved with the issues with the HBCUs enough to have AyPhiQue come out of my mouth. I'm Tri-lingual. :)

[QUOTE=emb021;1370203]Most rules regarding limits of 'cross-membership' are usually of the form:

* you may only join ONE type of professional/honorary GLO. (ie, you can only join one Business GLO, etc)
QUOTE]
I'd rephrase this as
* you may only join ONE of each specific type of professional/honorary GLO.

So you can join both the French Honorary and the Drama Honorary.

And while the fraternity may have agreed to something goofy when it joined the Professional Fraternity Association a couple of years ago, I don't think so. (http://www.profraternity.org/products.htm is the membership list of full members)

You mean, Y for Psi?

With that correction in mind, I agree 100%.

Yes, you are right...

Still I'm not sure any other matchup would have been superior. :(

I don't think any other matchup would have been better. But those 3 have always thrown me off. :o

I know the NPC (hist White Sororities) have strict and exacting rules on internal cross-membership and pretty sure that NIC (HWF) and NPHC (HBF&S) have them as well. Theoretically you could cross groups (say AKA sorority in the NPHC and Delta Delta Delta in the NPC, but I'd want to know the rules in exacting detail first.)

I really don't think you can do that. You should only have 1) social 1) academic 1) like religon, service, ect
if your really true to picking out an organization to you and sticking to it i dont think you need to go beyond this

Oh the irony....

What are you talking about? No, you cannot be in AKA and Tri Delta. AKA has it specifically written in their national by-laws prohibitting NPC membership. Several other NPHC groups have it too.

D, -----> <-----

Why must we label like this?? NPC is NPC and includes white, black, asian, hispanic, etc...

AND...APhiA and Iota are a part of the NIC.



PS...NPC + NPHC = NO.

Just to add - Kappa Alpha Psi is too.

Thank you, I knew there was one more, but I couldn't remember which. I just named the ones I knew to make my point.:)

Can vs. Should.
 

According to what I have been able to find in the bylaws on the NPHC and the NPC, you *can*. In the scenario above, neither Alpha Kappa Alpha or Delta Delta Delta would be breaking the bylaws of the NPHC or the unanimous agreements of the NPC (respectively). Whether you *should* or not is a completly different story. (And I agree with you that doing more than one seems nuts).

And as for one academic, I knew students who belonged to more than one Honor Society (Honorary) in College. For example at my wife's alma mater there were several students working to get degrees in education with specialities in Foreign Languages who belonged to both a Foreign Language Honor Society and a Education Honor Society. For most Honor Societies I've seen, the amount of time spent doing things works out to a few hours a month, so doubling up there probably isn't a problem.

Then I stand corrected. The information that I was able to find was at the NPC, NPHC level where common policy is decided. As for individual Greek Letter Organization's own bylaws, my research was evidently not complete enough. As I wrote above, regardless of whether you *can*, *should* is a different matter.

It's OK. There was a recent thread, now deleted, related to this topic. Very hot subject. I agree with your "can" and "should" comment.