Type of Sorority or Fraternity
 

Here's another poll:


Can everyone identify what kind of GLO they are in?
Also, identify if it is traditionally Multicultural, Black, White, Latino, Asian, etc.



I will start, Zeta Lambda Psi is a Service organization.
It is a traditionally Black Sorority.

We're a local that has been traditionally Euro-Centric and Japanese.

(people are always surprised when I say that..hehe)

Alpha Phi Omega (Recognition Fraternity of the Service Variety)
Alpha Phi Alpha (General Fraternity, Traditionally African American)

Delta Tau Delta is a fairly traditional old-line social fraternity. We have all kinds of men in our chapters these days, but are still overwhelmingly caucasian.

Edited for typo.

Delta Gamma is a international social sorority with all types of women in chapters, but I hate to say that a majority of chapter members are caucasian...

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Theta Nu Xi is a multicultural/service organization. We are a Multicultural Sorority.

Does Zeta Lambda Psi have a website? I really enjoy looking at websites of different organizations

We're a local. :)

Phi Gamma Pi is a predominantly caucasian local social sorority. Though we may not be very diverse in ethnic background, each of us has diverse interests. (ex. my pledge sister is a brother of FSP and I am a sister of KF)

Kappa Phi is a national Christian Womens group with predominantly caucasian members as well.

kappa delta is a social sorority....the members in my chapter atleast are largely caucasian!!

Alpha Phi Omega: coed national service fraternity

Lambda Omega Pi: local coed social fraternity.

Delta Gamma Pi Social and Service Multicultural Sorority

Omega Delta Phi is a national, Latino-Founded social/service fraternity, but lately we have become more multicultural

Phi Kappa Psi
 

Phi Psi is an old line gentlemen's fraternity, and charter member of the NIC. Traditionally, we have been a predominantly caucasian fraternity, but today we have some chapters that have no ethnic majority. More details are here.

Sigma Phi Epsilon is a social fraternity. Nationally, we are in general, a caucasion fraternity, but we have Brothers of all races, religion and creed. One of the few fraternities that explicitly outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Sigma Nu is an NIC fraternity. One of the larger ones nationwide. We're overwhelmingly caucasion, however, I've met brothers of many races/creeds/nationalities.

Zeta Sigma Chi is a social/service multicultural sorority.

Alpha Delta Pi is an NPC social sorority. While our roots are caucasian, there are no exclusions by race, religion, or creed.

Sigma Alpha Iota is a music fraternity for women.

We don't classify ourselves by race because we traditionally have all types! :)

Actually I've seen quite a few SAI chapters that are primarily Caucasian. None of us say "Gamma Phi Beta is a WHITE sorority," but the majority of our international members are Caucasian.

So anyway, Gamma Phi Beta is a social sorority with historically white membership. Omicron Delta Epsilon is a co-ed economics honor fraternity with historically dorky membership.

Well of course...but there are also many chapters that are primarily black, some that have a lot of Asians, and the like. And most chapters have quite a bit of diversity. I meant that, as a whole, you couldn't classify us by race because we're so varied.

Isn't the correct term, "Dorky-Americans?"

No because many chapters historically have dorky-Asians and Dorky-Africans as well. :)

I think more GLOs ought to follow this example.

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Sigma Tau Gamma is a NIC Social Fraternity. Even though the membership is primarly Caucasion, We do have men of every race/creed/nationalities who are a part of the fraternity.

Theta Delta Chi is an North American Interfraternity Converence (NIC) member, meaning a traditional social fraternity. There are 66 national and international fraternities within the INC.

You know what it means, so I'm not even going with any race issue, tho ...

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a social fraternity for men with a special interest in and love of music.

Although certainly caucasian at the time of our founding in 1898, we have and have long had brothers of all races, creeds, etc. (Historical note: our first chapter at an HBCU was chartered over fifty years ago in 1952 -- Zeta Iota at Howard University.)

Delta Xi Phi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. is a national organization whose purpose is to increase multicultural awareness. There are 11 chapters and my chapter is the 10th chapter to be founded. We are the only national multicultural sorority in the SEC.

Actually....DGP is at Univ. of SC.

Kappa Alpha Theta is traditionally "caucasion" but it really depends on the school. We have members of all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds which I think is awesome (and how things should work). It is an international women's fraternity affiliated with the NPC.

Alpha Phi Omega has already been mentioned....

Alpha Kappa Psi is a coed professional business fraternity, for business majors, but my chapter has allowed other majors to join in the past. Our members are of all races, religions, and ethnic backgrounds.

Alpha Chi Omega is one of the 26 NPC social sororites (we were founded as a "women's fraternity") Our collegiate chapter had a lot of Chinese and Indian women, but its mostly caucasion, and actually quite Jewish when I was pledging.

Phi Alpha Delta is a law fraternity. While there are chapters on college campuses for pre-law, I believe most of the chapters are in law schools.

They have been trying to start PAD chapter on my campus for the past 3 years. But, if it doesn't happen I will join in law school.

Sigma Kappa is also one of the NPC social sororities. We also have members of all ethnic backgrounds and religions. One of my honorary littles was actually from Singapore.

Alpha Chi Sigma is a co-ed professional chemistry fraternity. It is open to chemistry majors and other students who go through at least organic chemistry (mainly science majors).

Phi Mu is a NPC sorority....(actually a women's fraternity). While traditionally Caucasian, I believe that there are now many different races, creeds, and religions represented across our many chapters!

~Phi Mu~

Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, Inc. (also known as SIA) is a national Latina-based service sorority.

National--We have chapters in the North, South, East, and West, but most of the chapters are located on the east coast.
Latina-based--A lot of our service, programs, events, etc. deal with/educate about the Latin community, and the majority of our membership is of Latin heritage. HOWEVER, we are TRULY a diverse organization and we open our doors to qualified, hard-working women REGARDLESS of race, ethnic background, religion, etc.
Service--Serving the community is our most important order of business, but we also participate in social activities. :)


Also, not to sound like a hater or anything, but many of the "traditionally caucasion but have all different races etc." orgs represented on this thread are 99-100% White at my school. There would be a token "other" here and there in a couple of the orgs, but most of them were keeping up the all-white tradition. In case you are wondering, I attended the University of Maryland, which is not an all-white school at ALL. But I do have to admit that some of the sororities on my campus, even while being 99-100% white, did manage to have diverse membership (as in religions, majors, interests, etc.). But of course we also had the complete cookie cutter sororities as well. I really hope that the situation is different at other schools, that there really IS ethnic diversity on other campuses, and I hope that the social sororities on my campus can find a way to bring diversity to their chapters.

Many schools do have large ethnic diversity but some do not. The major thing to look at though is who participates in NPC rush. For example if a majority of caucasian students apply to a certain school while only a few people of other ethniticity apply obviously that school will look to be a primarily caucasian school due to the applicant pool. I think the same goes with GLO's and rush.

being familiar with SIAsensacion's school, the problem is not that U Maryland is overwhelmingly white, because it isn't.

But let's not hijack the thread too much. :)

My sister is a Theta at Maryland, and she tells me that she chose her chapter because it wasn't cookie cutter like many of the others. We're Jewish, and she's a legacy to AXO and DPhiE, but she chose Theta over DPhiE (or the other "Jewish" sororities) in part because she wanted more diversity (among other things).

EDIT: this is just from the information she tells me, I dont personally know, I haven't met her sisters...

If we are all fair and honest, we will probably admit that this is true just about everywhere. I'm sure there are some exceptions.

I suspect it could be said about traditionally Afro-American and other ethnic organizations as well.

Why that's true is the topic for a different thread. There have already been a few of them, in case someone wants to search, but the reasons aren't necessarily that we are all racist or bigoted or all around bad people. Sometimes it is as easy as being honest and saying that you feel more comfortable with people with which you have more in common.

It's a great thing to stretch your personal comfort zone -- but some never will.

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Hey I didn't know you are in BK, I was over there 2 wks ago, im in Jersey.

Zeta Phi Beta is a national sorority that is historically African American. We have chapters is West Africa, Germany and the Virgin Islands. We are one of the divine nine (a collective group of the African American fraternities and sororites).

In our Fall 2003 line that just crossed, our #1 is caucasian!