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Originally Posted by sigmadiva
Well, actually, it has been my understanding that Greek life really had its founding in the Free Masons and Phi Beta Kappa.
It terms of mimicing I am referring to the fact that many of these newer groups take all the characteristics that are commonly associated with the D9 like stepping/strolling, hand signs, calls, line names/numbers, symbols, colors - then say, well we are different. I don't mention rituals because I don't know the rituals of these orgs, nor of the others, but it would not surprise me if some of these newer groups 'borrowed' aspects of established groups. I'm just sayin' 
I have no problem that these new orgs exist. Great. Maybe we do need more choice. But, at the same time I get the feeling that you feel compelled to explain why your org exists. As long as you do you, then you won't find yourself on a message board asking why you and others made the choice (other than the D9) that you did. |
kewl...I can deal with that... let me hit you with this too...it's been a min since I really deep checked in and really saw that there are a lot of newer orgs popping up and at such high rates too...thus that was why I asked the question. You may know like I do, that once u really get out of school some of that really doens't concern you because you barely have enough time to keep up with what your own,(Work, Family yadda yadda) Thus when I foun dthis board along with some of the info one of my frat sent me, I was like ....WWWWOOOOOOOWWW...there are a lot of other folks who are going in other directions than whats already available... this was kind of apparent when I went up to Morgan a few years ago and peeped the handbook and saw the list of non NPHC orgs....so I wonder like some of you wonder and you don't learn anything without asking. And yeah you got some that are so non creative that the best they could do was slap a new coat of paint on thier org and calling a GLO...and you have some others that saw a void and filled it.
I am simply curious about anything that is new..but I sometimes find it easier to explain who I am first and set the table so that others can feel at ease joining in
No one can ever understand where ya going if they can't see where ya coming from....ya dig?