Service Greeks
 

I'm wondering just how many Service Greek Organizations are there? I know about...

Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity
Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority
Omega Phi Alpha National Service Sorority
Delta Sigma Theta Public Service Sorority

Not what organizations do service, because today almost every organization on campus does service. But how many other organizations actually have "Service" in their name?

According to Yahoo
 

[list=1][*]Alpha Phi Omega[*]Alpha Rho Lambda Sorority, Inc. - service to the Latino community, academic excellence, empowerment of all women, and unity. [*]Beta Sigma Fraternity - brotherhood, loyalty, and service are some of its valued principles. [*]Chi Rho Service Fraternity [*]Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. [*]Gamma Phi Beta [*]Gamma Sigma Sigma [*]Gamma Zeta Alpha Fraternity, Inc. - founded upon three principles: academic excellence, community service, and maintenance of the Latino culture. [*]Iota Nu Delta Fraternity - The First Indian based Fraternity to be founded. We strongly believe in the idias of brotherhood and loyalty. We emphasize the strength of the mind, body, and soul. [*]Kappa Kappa Psi - national honorary service fraternity dedicated to supporting college bands [*]Kappa Theta Epsilon - national honor society. Strives to recognize Cooperative Education students who excel in their scholastic and industrial endeavors. [*]Lambda Pi Chi - promotes the Latin community, sisterhood, and culture. [*]Lambda Upsilon Lambda [*]Omega Delta Sigma [*]Phi Beta Sigma [*]Phi Chi Omicron: Friars' Society [*]Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity, Inc. [*]Phi Sigma Pi [*]Pi Psi[*]Sigma Gamma Chi [*]Sigma Lambda Upsilon - Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc., is a non-profit Greek-lettered organization dedicated to the success and achievement of Latinas and the Latino community. [*]Sigma Pi Alpha - network of Chicanas/Latinas who want to make a difference in their communities by starting with themselves. [*]Sigma Theta Epsilon [*]Tau Beta Sigma [*]Theta Nu Xi - promotes leadership, multiculturalism, and self-improvement through academic excellence, campus and community involvement. [/list=1]




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Service Sorority
 

My org, Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc. doesn't have the word service as part of our name, but we are a Community Service based Sorority :)

ALL THE 9 ORGANIZATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL PANHELLENIC COUNCIL ARE SERVICE ORGAINZATIONS!!

ALPHA PHI ALPHA
ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA
DELTA SIGMA THETA
KAPPA ALPHA PSI
OMEGA PSI PHI
PHI BETA SIGMA
ZETA PHI BETA
SIGMA GAMMA RHO
IOTA PHI THETA

Thank you!!!!!:D Does an organization have to state it in their name that they are service based? All of us were founded on providing services to our community.

Lambda Psi Delta Inc. is a multi-cultural service sorority.

this is not a debate about who is service-oriented
 

My Brother is only asking which organizations use the word "Service" in their name, not which organizations have service as a principle or philosophy.

Delta Gamma Pi Multicultural Sorority is a service sorority.

Re: According to Yahoo
 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SATX*APhi
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[*]Kappa Kappa Psi - national honorary service fraternity dedicated to supporting college bands [*]Tau Beta Sigma
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Just a correction-

Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi are NOT service orgs. We are honorary GLO's who serve the band. (think HS band boosters on a *much* cooler level!) We honor members of the collegiate band with the oppertunity to serve. :D

Any more questions? See our website at http://www.kkytbs.org
My chapters site at http://www.geocities.com/tbsdo
And there is a thread about this on the Phi Mu Alpha board... I cant remember the title though! :)

Yes they do.

The reason I ask is because, specifically service organizations are affected by Title IX However, non-service organization are not. Meaning, as a guy, I could join any service fraternnity or sorority if I wanted to, on a campus that is federally funded. Social organizations are exempt from this national law. Today all greek lettered organizations do service. So the phrase service-based does not apply here, even though you are service. Either you are a service organization or you are a social organization that does service. This is the reason why I'm asking. I wanted to see how many service organizations were affected by Title IX. Thank you Rashid.

So help me out...if your organization is specifically service anyone can join regardless of sex/gender at a public university? :confused: Meaning that because the university federally funded their organizations cannot discriminate?

Well, this does not directly answer your question, but maybe it offers some starting points:

The Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities classifies greek lettered organizations (and other fraternal organizations) into four groups -

General, Honorary, Professional, Recognition

Traditional service organizations such as Alpha Phi Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, Omega Phi Alpha, and the Intercollegiate Knights, are all Recognition Fraternities and Sororities. We often consider these "Service" organizations even though social activities are a major part of their being. Most of these organizations have some sort of non-discrimination policy, sometimes as a result of not being exempt from Title IX.

Organizations that are social, service, and/or social action oriented in nature AND are selective on intangible criteria are in the "General" category. We oftentimes consider these organizations as "Social" even though that is not always their main reason for being. The Federal Government considers NPHC organizations "social" for the purposes of Title IX exemption.

To avoid arguments and debates, I have begun using the term "General" Fraternity or Sorority to mean an organization that is exempt from Title IX.

Also, Title IX applies to any campus receiving federal funds of any type, including students who receive federal financial aid.

There is a thread called "Dual Membership" that discusses a lot of this.

Thank you!!!:D I learn something new every day!

I am a member of the Kappa Delta Tau Service Sorority. It's a local service sorority at Eastern Kentucky University.

another one
 

On the East Carolina campus there is also
Epsilon Sigma Alpha

rituals?
 

do these service fraternities have secrets and rituals like the other GLO's?
just asking!!
ashley

Re: rituals?
 

I know that our organization is non-secret, however our rituals are secret like most GLO's

Service Orgs Suck!!!

That is why I pushed a wheel chair bound lady student around for 4 years to class every day!

Why should I as a Semi Jock do that? BaseBall.

Well sports fans, I loved that lady, and am A Proud Member of APO BN chapter!

While the Service Orgs are not The Social orgs, they do one hell of a lot and I have said it all! Yes, some of them party and have fun, and can be part of the Social Orgs., cant we all do our thing for Charity? LXA North American Food Drive, the largest Food drive in the USA!

My Chapeer also does Westernweek and Hot Tub A Thon for charitys! That is 3 things a year!

In The last 10 years, we have given over 1.M dollars, that just My Chapter!

Give today so that you may receive tommarrow!

In GREEK LOVE!

Title IX
 

Phi Beta isn't a service fraternity in the sense that you are posting about JayBee. Our official name is Phi Beta Fraternity: National Professional Association for the Creative and Performing Arts, so as you can see, we're a professional group. (And belong to PFA).

We are affected by Title IX, though. In fact, I just recently came across an old magazine article that mentioned the fraternity's vote on which way to go with Title IX (open membership to men or change our premise). I am proud that we now allow men, because I know some great brothers that I wouldn't have otherwise!

Rashid, your statements make you seem that you are complete denial. Saying that the 1987 manual was wrong, and the CD corrected it's mistake, is showing us that you believe in something that you have to believe in. And nothing, not even the truth will make you see anything. That's completely deep to say, without written proof, about an Alpha Phi Omega document.

Being a member of this great organization for years, lack of male interest to this fraternity does frequent this organization to a astronomical extent. And it seems that you are saying, since the founders are not the ones that made you, they are no more important that the next member. In this statment you made:

You talk as if this is no longer Alpha Phi Omega, an organization founded by Frank Reed Horton. You are in essence, saying that this organization is one of the people and the people who founded this organization are dead and buried, lets take it to where we want it to be. If that's true, w
hy even mention there names, Why even have a history if it is not important anymore. You don't create an organization with the knowledge that it will take a completely different direction after you died. All that you worked for suppose to be be the foundation of you organization. And you know it will stand as is, because the foundation is thick. You don't come and create your own organization and toss what they built aside because you simply think that it is outdated.

You're chapter is now predominately female. What gets me is how are you going to use the history of the chapter like your coed chapter established it. Being in a chapter that has been coed since 77. Bill Clinton came through in 1967. How do you even know if he wanted to have been there if the chapter was coed. It was the history of the all male chapter that was once there at Georgetown that gave you a chance to wear those letters in the first place. Mu Alpha is "just" majority female. You guys are the lucky ones. There are chapters that are over 90% female. And
there is a need for a focus on the male. At a chapter in Indiana, on the internet they listed 113 members. 98 were female. What happens to the male attraction. At another school their campus yearbook states Alpha Phi Omega National service Sorority. Young men are not attracted to a sorority.

Basically, this is fraternity design to help young men. So if you do not think that manhood supplement development is important, you delete it. Just as Alpha Phi Omega has been doing over the years. To where now the history that was on 12 pages in 1980 is one one page today. Why? It is because it doesn't apply anymore? If your chapter is coed, and doesn't have a focus on young men, for just simply attraction alone, then you are witnessing first hand the shattering of a dream from that one man. That one man that you own your "entire" APO experience to. The dream that he oath unto himself to create. The one that the Lord. The dream to help young men by holding before them a Standard of Manhood. Not any standard of manhood, but a standard of manhood that would "Withstand" anybody trying to change it's meaning. That would withstand any legistlation. He basically was saying that this standard of manhood, will be here after we are all dead and buried. You might not be able to see whats sitting there in plain sight, and actually it would be understandable. Because anybody that was made to take an oath in this organization, are automatically placed in a position where they have to defend. You have to make total sence out of all your decisions. And it's easier for a female to say they joined an organization designed to help young men so those men can excell in Manhood, than it is for a guy to say that they joined an organization designed to help young women so those women can excell in Womanhood. And when we see look at Womenhood, we then see distinc differences cleary designed for Women. But when you join and pledge to any system, the system has you. You raised your right hand. How can you turn your back on your word. Plus you are in the mist of other people who have done the same thing. You are now dedicated.

But lets say that the fraternity decides to create a generalized focus for young men. But not only that, they say that all of your pledge groups and any new petitioning groups have to have at least 75% male or it will not be excepted. Of course, coming from a certain way of life, you would have resistence. I'm totally against having to have a cross section of the popluation of the campus to create a chapter of Alpha Phi Omega. This organization should allow any group to join. We first created a membership for females, and then ten years later, we dissallow any group that is all male to form a petitioning group. It is as if completely we took the rights out of the students who might of had their own desires.
Thats simply not right.

First off, brother or not, I have to say I don't give a rat's rump what Bill Clinton would have wanted (although I have a hard time believing he would have run away from a group of females in ANY situation ;)).

At another school their campus yearbook states Alpha Phi Omega National service Sorority. Young men are not attracted to a sorority. [/QUOTE]

I would blame this on the yearbook staff before I would blame it on the chapter. Sometimes there are people not familiar with the Greek system at all on staff and they make assumptions. My (social) sorority had a lot of members who were in the band, and consequently, in one yearbook we were on the same page as the band organizations, because the staff thought that we were "the band sorority" (Tau Beta Sigma). So that is not the fault of APO allowing women...it's the fault of stupid yearbook staffers.

We first created a membership for females, and then ten years later, we dissallow any group that is all male to form a petitioning group. [/QUOTE]

Please fill me in on this...I would assume that an all male group that intends to take in female brothers would be fine, but a group that states their intention to stay all male would be denied? As far as I'm concerned, that's how it should be. What if an interest group of Alpha Chi Rho said "we will only take Christians" or an interest group of Pi Kappa Alpha said "we will only take whites"? Are you saying you would be alright with that?

p.s. to the bros of AXP and PKA - don't take it personal, just using you 2 as groups that had restrictive clauses and have gotten rid of them.

JayBee, if you do not catch my drift on some posts, I many times start out by stirring up sopme Stuff!

The only thing I know that beeing a member of APO since 1960 that it is a wonderful Organization that does good for the not so fortunate!

I was wrong, I am not a member of BN but BU chapter at NWMSU!

We had many different people in the APO Group, none of a social fraternity nature but we did a lot of important things while I was there!

Do not feel in any way that there is a demeaning thing about being on this thred and site!

Those that say things have never been a part of what APO does daily!

God Bless The APO ORG!:)

Yours in the Best of Health and Fratenalism!

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