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Originally Posted by whiterose58
so to get back to the original point of this thread:
i am a gamma sig so i know at least a few chapters do have social insurance. it could be the case that at your university that chapter does. if you suspect they don't have insurance i'd take it up with IFC and make sure your frat doesn't have a social with them until you are sure on the insurance issue.
gamma sigs have a lot of pride in not belonging to a council, so i don't think any chapter of gamma sig would be trying to "act" like a social sorority. (we were actually invited to join panhel decades ago and declined, just like we did with NPH.) we are just acting like us, and we would never turn down an invitation to be friendly, like an invite to be in greeksing or to cohost a social. i don't think we should be expected to turn it down either, just because we're not on this or that council or don't pay such and such dues. we don't participate in rush or own property (ie houses), so obviously we don't pay dues like yall do.
since gamma sigs are only governed by themselves, we know the other chapters very intimately and can actually speak on what other chapters do. like stated before -- we would know if a chapter had pledges for longer than 10 weeks. not having a governing council obviously results in an amazing ability to self-govern. i trust my sisters all over the country fully when they say we don't haze. our non-hazing policy is almost as central to our sorority as our ideal of service.
so like i said, talk to IFC or the gamma sig chapter about insurance, and maybe think about an IFC policy on "associating" with orgs other than panhel -- although, i hope you don't decide to associate exclusively with panhel, because you will miss out on meeting an amazing array of diverse and remarkable people that way -- and isn't meeting people what greek letter orgs are all about?
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This is the first I've heard about GSS being asked to join NPC and turning it down. And what is NPH?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I don't think the chapter at the OP's school has social insurance. A mixer is not an "invitation to be friendly" - it's a closed party that can have risk management implications and you shouldn't be participating if you don't have insurance that can cover for those implications.
As far as Greek sing, if the money to hold the event comes from IFC and Panhel dues, and if it's a competition for prize money, only IFC and Panhel members should be contestants. Period. If GSS wants to sing as "halftime entertainment" while the ballots are being counted, go for it...but they shouldn't be contestants.
And I hate to break it to you, but there ARE chapters of service Greeks all across the country that try to act like social Greeks.