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Originally Posted by Heather17 (Post 1439658)

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

There's not a 4th big council. There are three major councils and then there are some of what would definitely be comparably minor councils, at least in terms of size/membership.

That they celebrate a different culture, thus are major is a bunch of hippie talk as far as I'm concerned :)

People who need to use * in place of letters when they're trying to INTARWEB SWEAR is teh lame.

Awww...someone's profane post got deleted. :(

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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS (Post 1439916)

Awww...someone's profane post got deleted. :(

:) I wouldn't call that profane -- it was an attempt to get profane. A poor one, I might add. :p

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Originally Posted by OTW (Post 1439922)

:) I wouldn't call that profane -- it was an attempt to get profane. A poor one, I might add. :p

Oh yes...another rule:

Use quotation marks (i.e. "profane") when your words aren't to be taken literally or you are lazily using a short cut to express something.

:p

Girls going through recruitment:

*Please familiarize yourself with some sorority terminology BEFORE you post. You don't know HOW confusing it is when girls ask recruitment-related questions and don't know the difference between words like rush, bid, etc. and use them wrong. We can't answer your question if we aren't sure what you're talking about.

*No one here can tell you for sure whether or not you will receive a bid from a sorority if you go through recruitment. All we can do is give advice based on what you tell us. THe best source of advice is someone who is in a sorority at your school OR the Greek Life office at your school.

My first thought when reading all of your comments is that it's not the people who would take time to read this thread that are the problem. It's the *others*...

And, since it's been brought up...

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Originally Posted by IAmMysticCat (Post 1439653)

NALFO is the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations. The umbrella organization for multicultral organizations (though not all multicultral GLOs are members) is indeed the National Multicultural Greek Council.

I would hesitate to place the NMGC at the level of NPHC/NPC/IFC/NALFO not only because the council is still growing but also because it isn't the same type of organization. Where the other councils/conferences meet in great part to develop agreements among the member organizations for the betterment (and protection) of the whole, the NMGC appears to act more like a chamber of commerce, bringing together organizations to share information with a future goal to work together to promote awareness of multiculturalism. But, the definition of multiculturalism seems to be rather fluid as the NMGC represents both cultural-based (Latina for example) and multicultural-based orgs. I would be interested to see an umbrella org for "historically multicultural" orgs.

That's enough of that tangent.

Non-greeks or interests:

It is lame of you to start topics that got locked up in other GC forums. If they are stupid in one forum, they are probably stupid in other forums.

If you fail to receive answers from one place, you will probably fail to receive answers in another location...

Turning around to ask another question differently that is not insightful, it is lazy...

Another rule of thumb:

Some sororities (not mentioning any names ;) ) are represented on GC way out of proportion to their actual representation in the Greek community.....

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Originally Posted by LionTamer (Post 1440265)

Another rule of thumb:

Some sororities (not mentioning any names ;) ) are represented on GC way out of proportion to their actual representation in the Greek community.....

Is that really a rule of thumb or just an observation? Not that it really matters, since no one is really going to read this that needs to anyway, as PJeni said ... ;)

Bumping because I can.

SockPuppet2 was rude and occasionally took jabs at me, but he/she/it was kinda funny.