Multi-Cultural Councils
 

Hey all...

I am a proud member of Lambda Psi Delta Sorority, Inc. We are Nationally affiliated with NMGC-National Multicultural Greek Council. My chapter in Tampa, FL is affliated with UGC-Unified Greek Council as the local council. What are the names or types of councils on your campus relating to cultural org.'s?? Is it UGC? MGC? DGC?

Is your sorority for people of mixed heritage, or is it just a sorority that doesn't want to be labeled black or white?

We are MULTI-Cultural....we are not black...we are not white....we are not latin...we cater to all cultures and backgrounds...

How so?

We didn't have enough "catch-all" type organizations on my yard for them to have a council. They just joined the IFC/PHC.

What do you mean how so...you question makes no logic to me...Im not being rude...maybe your campus doesn't have orgs like mine I guess...Im trying to understand your confusion.

You said your org. "caters" to people of all backgrounds and cultures. She appears to be asking how they "cater" to them.

Well in that aspect...it's more sought on the values of the org. than who can or can't join it. Not everyone is made out to be Greek. And everyone seeks certain aspects of GL.
We are community service based and cultural awareness. We hold national events expressing unity and celebrating each others various backgrounds. We also party, do step/stroll and all that jazz too...

Uh...how do you cater to all backgrounds? I'm not sure how to state the question more simply than that. Is it through your recruitment activities? Do you specifically target any and everyone? When you do service, is the emphasis on the whole, as opposed to a specific subgroup of a community?

I checked out your website, and am noticing your signature that has components of black greekdom in it. I also noticed more Hispanic and Black members. Are these the "multi-cultural" communities that you cater to?

Not trying to be rude. I know someone who will be attending USF next year, and am really just trying to find out the other organizations that cater to non-white ladies. Your siggy caught my attention because you attend USF and are part of an org. that is not traditionally a white glo.

Ok I got you now, sorry for the confusion. In our foundings, yes there are aspects of both NPHC and LGLO in ours. In all of our aspects we target to everyone, not one particular group. Service projects we hold are more about community and empowerment of women more than providing service to one particular subgroup. We do happen to have many latin and african american sisters, but those are not our limits, nor are they the ONLY people. We accept and would love sisters of every decent...white, black, asian, indian, etc. Have your friend check out the org's at usf...USF Student Activities and go to the Greek Life section of it so she can research the org's on campus.

Hope this helps

Gotcha! And thanks for the info. :)

UC Riverside has recently formed an Ethnic Sorority/Fraternity Council (ESFC) which is in the process of changing it's name to Multi-Cultural Sorority/Fraternity Council. It's a brand new council and the 26 organizations that have the option of being a part of it are using the United S/F Council at San Diego State as a model. We're hoping that the new council will encourage orgs that aren't represented by a council like Panhellenic and IFC to establish new councils; we should have NPHC by the end of Spring quarter (haven't had NPHC since the mid-90s) and then hopefully the councils will get equal representation.

If anyone has any good ideas or resources to provide to a new M/C council, please PM me! I work with the student organizations at UCR and have been providing a lot of advising to our new council to help get them recognized on campus.

SDSU has the largest multi greek council in the country:

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/%7eusfc/

This council has such great principles. You can see the credibility and professionalism from the site alone. National conferences and all...it's great...Im definately taking this to my council...right now it's in the process of splitting from ugc ....to ugc and nalfo

DePaul University (Chicago) established a Multicultural Greek Council in 2001. It houses NPHC, Latino/a, Asian and South Asian organizations. We don't have any organizations that are classified as "multicultural" yet.

Florida State's MGC has been in existance since 2000, and the members include:

alpha Kappa Delta Phi National Sorority, Inc.

Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc.

Sigma Lambda Gamma National Sorority, Inc.

Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc.

Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc.

Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.

Associate Member: Lambda Tau Omega Sorority, Inc.

They're the positive counter to all the negative vibes the rest of us give off.....

The MGC as my school is like that too. We don't have any organization that's classified as "multicultural" yet (though I heard there is an interest group for a multicultural sorority) and we don't have NPHC orgs in our council, but we basically have all the fraternities and sororities that aren't IFC, PHC, or NPHC. We have alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Nu Omega, Beta Phi Pi, Delta Sigma Iota, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Sigma Lambda Gamma, Sigma Lambda Upsilon, and Sigma Omicron Pi. And I think we just extended associate status to Delta Phi Omega.

SOPi Jawbreaker, what happened with PDPsi's presentation? :D

At George Washington University, we have the following members:

Alpha Kappa Alpha - HBGLO sorority
Alpha Phi Alpha - HBGLO fraternity
Delta Sigma Theta - HBGLO sorority
Zeta Phi Beta - HBGLO sorority
Iota Nu Delta - South Asian Fraternity
Kappa Alpha Psi - HBGLO fraternity
Lambda Pi Chi - Latina Sorority
Lambda Upsilon Lambda - Latino Fraternity
Pi Delta Psi - Asian Interest Fraternity
Sigma Lambda Upsilon - Latina Sorority
Sigma Psi Zeta - Asian Sorority

We have interest from like 4 more orgs too.

The reason we don't have NPHC is because we had it before, but it didn't work because no one put in the time. So now, we all operate in one council, helping each other out and supporting. It works OK.

:)