Nu Sigma Beta
 

I am a member of a Puertorican fraternity called Nu Sigma Beta NSB. We were founded in 1937 at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Since then our Fraternity has expanded to include a chapter in almost every University in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and some US Universities. If you are interested in more information about our fraternity our site is www.nusigmabeta.org also if you would like some information about starting a Nu Sigma Beta chapter in your University you can email me at sotomizer@gmail.com. The Nu Sigma Beta fraternity is not a latino or Puertorican only type of fraternity it is open to all races and ethnic origins.

Ahhhh, this was too good to pass up. But I wont start, homes. HAHAHAHAHAHA. What a joke

I'm reviving this thread!

Many people have mentioned about multicultural representation through a Latino org; I go to a predominantly white institution, the Latino population is about 10% with FAR FEWER being Latino males, while our numbers may be small, I know it is nothing compared to schools like Indiana University, Purdue, and the Ivy League Schools (where we have chapters), being that in schools like these the Latino male population is very low (along with the Black male population), do you think people'll take a fraternity (or sorority) seriously if ALL the members of the chapter were White? Or would it be viewed as a mainstream org practicing a philanthropy a Pan Americanism (as an old mainstream fraternity did back in the 1920's and 30's), hopefully this is making sense to all of you, I've just bumped into plenty of folks who go to PWI's with LGLO's on campus and the majority of their members are not Latino, rather African American or white...i guess they [the GDI's] felt they wouldn't be able to understand the culture if they're not fully in it (not going to comment on that right now).

I don't think it would be a matter of being taken "seriously", because I don't think other Greeks would treat them differently and risk being thought of as racist, and assuming that the racial make-up of the chapter comes from a phenomenon at that school, I would think that other chapters would have similar situations.

I think it would just affect the kind of people that are drawn to the organization at first. I'm sure a few people would be drawn to the novelty of it, and others would avoid it altogether. But again, if this is affecting all of the chapters at that school, then it may not have a major impact on one chapter. Either way, I would hope that people would base their decisions on the national organization and not just the local chapter, which I know that some people do.

I'm pretty sure, however, that this is a very unlikely situation. It's much more likely that the chapter would just go defunct if there was a shortage of that org's "target" group.

William Paterson University
 

I am not a part of a multicultural org. on campus, however I am VP of
our Greek Senate on campus. We have many Latina/o orgs on campus...
My org. (Alpha Sigma Tau) gets along great with majority of them. Just to
throw it out there, I adore Mu Sigma Upsilon.

Sororities :

Mu Sigma Upsilon Latina Sorority, Inc.
Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Lambda Tau Omegs Sorority, Inc.
Omega Phi Chi Sorority, Inc.
(I know MSU and OPC are multicultural... I think LTO and LTO are Latina)

Fraternities :
Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity, Inc.
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Latino Fraternity, Inc.
Lambda Theta Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Hope this helped!!

Where are you an LUL? They were just brought onto our campus! :)
Love those boys!

LTO is Multicultural but their membership is predominantly Latina.

...i'm gonna need to visit Willy Patterson Soon to check them folks out :D

This statement is not entirely true. It varies by region.

Are you saying the predominantly latina membership varies by region? I guess my impression of LTO was the same. In what regions is it different?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. In FL, there are more black sorors than latina.

so overall, like nationally, are there more latina members or is it just about even? i mean, i'm not sure how many chapters you have in florida, so I'm wondering if that accomplishes the multiculturalism.

MSU is a Multicultural Sorority I believe.

It's definitely not Mu Sigma Upsilon Latin Sorority, Inc. But, they call themselves the first "multicultural minority sorority." Being that they are bound to a Latino fraternity, perhaps they are multicultural in the same way that Sigma Lambda Gamma is (a Latina-based multicultural sorority). It's understandable how it could be confusing.

I don't think so.... the members I know just consider it a multicultural sorority. Their national website doesn't say "minority multicultural" -- but maybe other sources say that because other sororities before MSU were founded to be non-sectarian and therefore happened to be multicultural.

Although, I've never heard of MSU being for only "minority" women, I think what PJ is refering to is:
http://www.musigmaupsilon.org/present/050604.html

(4th paragraph)

Here's a link as well from the Siksika Chapter - the second chapter founded:

http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/clubs/mus...al_History.htm

By the way, I wasn't suggesting that MSU limits itself to a minority membership. I was talking about the org's history and why they might be confused as a Latina sorority.

SLG in NMGC?
 

Hey all - I just heard that Sigma Lambda Gamma has joined the NMGC. Can anyone confirm?

I haven't heard. I'm sure it will be on their website soon if it's true.

This thread was definitely good reading. I was not even aware of this "trend". I can't understand why an organization would change their focus. It doesn't seem right. Plus, it's confusing.

At the very least, members of the same organization should know whether they are in a Latino or multicultural organization.

Certainly. I really am interested in the development of the NMGC even if it seems like I'm down on the council sometimes. I expect much from it.

I am not too surprised if SLG joined the NMGC, alot of Latino orgs have confused me going back and forth from calling themselves a Latino org to a Multicultural org, while we do have a very diverse membership, we need to let folks know the difference between make up and orientation.

Yea, the whole "Multicultural" but being like 90% of one race kind of defeats the purpose. I mean, if a D9 org began calling themselves "Multicultural" in terms of their membership, it'd be true to a point (as there are obviously non-Blacks in D9 orgs) but it wouldn't make much sense.

I think the reason why you're seeing it so much in LGLOs is b/c of the nature of what it is to be Latino/Latina. You have some Latino ethnicities that have much more influence from certain cultures than others. What does it "mean" to be Latino? Who is Latino? Is an Asian person who lives in a South/Latin American country and then comes to the US Latino? Is an African immigrant to Argentina who then comes to the US Latino as well?

There are a lot of great books on "being" Latino and the experience of Latino/a's which shed a lot of light for me on the issue. I highly recommend Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas (a member of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. btw). Talks about his life as a Black Puerto Rican. VERY VERY VERY good book and enjoyable to read too.

And another thing...if you have members from two ethnicites/races (ie Black and Latino) as your primary membership, wouldn't that be Bi-Cultural as opposed to Multicultural? B/c as far as I know, the supposed "Multicultural" Latino/a organizations are mostly Latino/a and Black with very few Asians...not sure about whites or Native Americans but I assume these numbers are also small. Also, does Multicultural come from membership or who their programs are targeted towards?? Just food for thought.

I can only speak for my org, but I'm sure other MCGLOs will agree, MC for us comes from membership AND the entire focus/purpose of our organization. Multiculturalism is encompassed in our programming, community service, etc, etc. We don't serve just one type of ethnic/racial community, we serve everyone.

Personally, I have a problem with organizations that switch from Latino/a to MC and continue to serve only the Latino community. If you are going to switch, then fine. But switch on a national level. I have seen many latina sororities on campuses where my sorority is also located do this switch in attempts to increase numbers. It's not cool to me to do that. If you are truly trying to be MC, that's great! But don't switch to increase membership or b/c there seems to be a lack of interest from the Latino community. It's very confusing and frankly, it's not serving the true intent of the org's foundation. Again, switching is fine, but to me it should be done on a national level so that everyone (members and interests) is on the same page.

It's news to me. Imma have to wait to see if/when they are added to the NMGC list of member organizations.

Co-sign. Audaz from GC is a member of SLG and has shed some light on what's happening. She is one of those who continue to say that SLG is a Latina sorority but with a multicultural membership. I would say that's the case for a number of orgs.

Then I guess that means that every org is multicultural, since we all (NIC/NPC/NPHC/NALFO/NMGC) have a diverse range of members. ;)

I bet that no one is willing to answer the question, but why would an org want to "turn their back" on their history and basis of founding just to recruit members? I wouldn't want to sacrifice my orgs ideals and unique culture just for numbers. I would want folks to want to be a member of my org because of what we are and what we do, not because they think we are something else...

I hear you. I just don't think switching is fine. At all. I don't think you can be part of a national organization and just change things around to "increase numbers" on your campus. I'd rather we die out on a specific campus (and we have) and stay true to our focus/potential members then to switch up. Somehow, that seems so disingenuous.

Co-co-co-sign. :D

Yea, I'm surprised SLG joined the NMGC. I mean, I guess they are changing their membership focus??? But I know that they are the second largest Latina-based sorority, so I really don't see why they should be struggling for numbers.

If it is true that they joined NMGC, I wonder if they are going to keep their membership with NALFO?

i dont see why not - there are quite a few orgs that are on multiple councils. i dont see what the conflict would be.

I just checked out NALFO's public documents and I don't see anything that would suggest that an organization couldn't maintain membership in multiple councils. NMGC docs aren't online anymore, so I have no idea where they stand on the issue.

A section from the NMGC constitution (I assume) is available on the website - on an unrelated note, I'm interested learn more about what constitutes a "multicultural or multiethnic organization as defined by the NMGC Membership Application." Would a member from an NMGC org be willing to comment?

On the SLG in the NMGC question, apparently it's not true as confirmed by someone on the "inside." Guess the rumor stops here.

We are a MULTICULTURAL sorority. ;)

Well said ZChi4Life. In addition to multicultural membership, we all strive to build bridges between cultures to share our differences and similarities through awareness events and dialogue.

As a member of NMGC, I can confirm that SLG is not joining NMGC. They are members of NALFO only.

Confused ungreek
 

I'm not greek, but I have looked into diffrent types of orgs...I was looking into a multicutural org, and was looking into SLG. They say they are a "latina-multicultural org".. But they are cousins to Sigma's and Zeta's right? and you guys are african american org. So i was a bit confused? Can anyone help me..

About what?

another question
 

I also looked at Mu sigma upsilion, and that your brother frat is Lsu. Are you also a latina-multicultural sorority. I just ask becasue you also signed with a spanish phrase. Is Lsu a multicultural frat, casue on thier site they say they are latino.
Sorry if i'm being disrespectful..I'm new to this whole greek thing

confused
 

Chaos...

The cousin thing? What does that mean? And are they latino?
Cause they say they are latino-multicultural. But if you are multicultural..why say latino-? Did i confuse you

Xive3, that question is answered before. From an SLG in this post and from a Zeta in this post.

However, nothing is mentioned of this relationship on either national website.

Thanks....

A general suggestion I have is to define what multiculturalism means to you. Once you have done so, research multicultural organizations, here, on the web, on your campus, etc., and find the organization that best fits what you believe multiculturalism means. Not to mention additional research of what the organization is, or isn't doing, on the local / regional / national level.