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Originally posted by Tom Earp:
Alpha Phi Omega is a Greek Named orgaization only!
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Thanks for your positive comments but Alpha Phi Omega in total you are not aware of. Tom, Alpha Phi Omega is a Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity. Dat's it. If it wanted to be apart of a council it could petition itself to be on it, and at that time and only that time there would be nobody from that council joining Alpha Phi Omega. However, since we are not apart of a council
anybody from any other organization can join like you stated. Or let me put it another way. If any counciled organization choosed to not be a part of that council then anybody could join that regardless of the organization they are in if that non-counciled org wanted to be established that way.
Alpha Phi Omega as a Greek Organization? Let me put this argument to rest. Alpha Phi Omega is Service Greek Organization. This is something that social service organizations do not want to recognize because it is say that we do service and they do not. But obviously this is not the case. Social Service counciled organizations do much service now. And never seen the Term Social Service on any of the fraternal organization names. Now, Delta Sigma Theta has that they are a public service organization. So they are a service organization. But if you talk to other greek lettered organizations on the the council, they would classify them as a Social Service org as well.
No we are not greek organizations. Only because the council organizations call themselves the only greek organizations, that's it. We could consider ourselves greek but nobody in this organization would want that stereotype. In my book any organization that is a social or service greek lettered organization can consider themselves greek. Not just what a counciled organization wants you to be. And since do have service in our name it's only fitting to call us what we rather be called any way. Service Greeks!
What does Alpha Phi Omega consider themselves is what the question should be. And that answer varies. It has a rich fraternal tradition on different campuses. On others it the fraternity takes on a club-like atmosphere. But that doesn't make them any less of a fraternal organization. So on some campuses we are single gender traditionally service greek organizations. And on others we are coeducational service greek organizations. But we are not formally a coeducational fraternity. Only one that has coed chapters.
JayBEE!