Oh, yeah...
 

Though, we didn't do any non-social ventures with the PHC sororities, I do remember that the XOs donated to a project we were working on once to help the kids in the local Head Start Program. Additionally, the AOIIs and the ADIIs used to send us letters wishing us well from time to time whenever they knew we were working on some sort of large community service project. :)

I guess my campus would be the exception then... most likely because we really don't have an IFC... we only have a GFA (Greek Fraternal Association) which basically handles Greek Week and each term's charity that all GFA events raise for...

No greeks really handle AIDS awarness - done by the many school and governmental orginizations on campus.

No greeks handle voter registration (for the most part LCA, DKE, AEPi, and APhiA all had volunteers out helping for the last US election) - everyone is pretty much automatically registered by the government, it's just a matter of confirming place of residence (for ridings).

Tthere is no real "outreach" program orgainized on a grand scale - each GLO handles it's own particular philanthropy and charity iniatives, which in turn target specific community goals or needs... if you mean the "black" community - APhiA, DKEs, DUs, and Sigma Chi's all were on last years Black History Month commitee, and were vital in forming some of the more recent "black" students groups on campus.

Finally I'd love to see what "stepping" is - and why it is such a big thing mentioned here on GC... but there hasn't been anything like that here as far as I know...

I would not expect a group of GLOs from various racial backgrounds to focus all their energies on any one group. When I use the word "community", that includes people of all races who need help.

Stepping is a tradition for some GLOs. I can't imagine why it is such a big deal on GC, except for the fact that stepping is the first thing the uninformed masses think of when they think of certain GLOs.

Hmmmmmmmm

Well in the broad term of community - I guess that'd fall under the auspices of the various GLO's philanthropic ventures... but for a collective outreach program... not really - the students are the "underprivilaged" for the most part in the area around the campus.

As for "stepping" I see it advertised alot by different GLOs, as well as discussions of how the various events went... personally I'd love to see someone (anyone) "step" at the Greek Week talent show - if only to spare everyone from yet another "Fully Monty" routine :rolleyes:

Anyone who is caught doing a "Full Monty" should be stripped naked, smeared with honey, and covered in ants.

Well one horrible year... of the five Fraternities that participated in the "Talent Show" four did the "Full Monty" routine...

Then again at least we where spared the rap routine by one house... they'd been doing it for 3 years - it'd have been okay if the guys could actually rap... together... and in tune with the music...

AKAs are hot

on my campus we really had very little to do with each other in a social sense. but that's how the npc's were with each other as well--we basically kept to our own for social events. so no surprise there.

the nphc's and the npc's would each join and support each other's philanthrophy events, which was nice.

i'd say we each knew very little about the other. but i never saw anything keeping us separate. i hung out with my sisters, they hung out with theirs, and the tridelts and kappas hung out with theirs. no racial undertones. just little interaction.

Re: UT-Austin
 

WOW 5 councils! That's cool.

At UK, the NPC and NPHC sororities didn't mix at all, to my knowledge. I'm not sure about the fraternities. It wasn't that there was any sort of animosity...we just didn't really intermingle. However, the Alpha Phi Alphas came to our sorority house on several occasions during chapter dinner...they were really nice guys and I liked them a lot.

At Cleveland State , every Greek Organization ( IFC, PHC, NPHC) pretty much get along while being under Greek Council.

Let's see here.......we only have 2 NIC groups, 0 NPC (just can't keep 'em here, hehe), and the rest are local.

We also have never had any "multicultural" or "historically black/white/whatever" groups either. Even though Rio is a hillbilly school, we've never had any real "trouble" with having greek members of ANY racial/ethnic/socioeconomic background.

Hell, my own sorority at one time (for a large number of years)was the "Japanese" sorority for awhile :D Hence my screenname, :cool:

When I was last there, folks got along whenever they wanted something. If XYZ wanted to throw a house party, make friends with ABC fraternity. If GHI sorority wanted to learn to step, start doing service with MNO sorority and get in good with them.

How would that work out if the BGLO chapters had older members? Nobody from either group felt the other was just at two different stages in their lives?

-Rudey