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Originally Posted by AXiD670
Isn't one of the ideas behind being Greek to join a brother/sisterhood and have close bonds with the members? Why can't people in Greek letter honor societies or Greek letter service groups or academic GLOs have a close bond or friendship with their fellow members?
What exactly is it that they don't quite "get" about being Greek?
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At many schools I don't think it matters much at all. With or without greek letters, there are all kinds of student organizations out there for people that offer many things that are so diverse as to be unmeasurable against a particular "yardstick" about what any organization should be.
The reason I posted is that at U. Texas we have a very unusual phenomenon whereby significant numbers of the various honors, school major, spirit, philanthropy and cultural student groups adopt greek letters and attempt to have some sort of existence that reflects certain facets of "Greek Life" at U. Texas.
This is especially ironic since so much of the GDI population can't stand us- but yet are dying to get themselves aligned with any group that has greek letters. I like it. Imitation is, after all, the sincerest form of flattery.
In the big picture, I think you make a fair point adpiucf, but my example is there to show that there are a lot of preconceived notions out there about what a "GLO" really is. At U. Texas, it seems clear that many create GLOs that seek to imitate what most of us think of us as "Greek Life"- where, in fact- a GLO is quite simply a group of 2+ people that decides to put greek letters on the front door.
Greek letters on the front door don't really matter for many of these groups since there is little or no ritual or significant meaning behind the choices as is the case for the social groups (of which many are merely letters that are abbreviations of a major or just a random slogan), but clearly over the years those organizations have decided there is sufficient value in the association of their organizations with greek letters for their face value.
PS- Forgive please the exploration of minutia. Mental mastur-you-know-what is a favorite exercise of mine
