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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
Except I don't see what the shared thing here is other than the word fraternity.
I really like living with 50 of my closest friends, parties and girls.
And then someone else saying I'm not quite cool enough to party and hang around girls, but I can help give people in college directions to class because they spent their orientation partying and hanging out with girls and lost their campus map?
(again, a joke, but also a serious question. what does a service fraternity have in common with my house, because I'm not coming up with a lot?)
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Well, theoretically, they both offer a sense of belonging and teamwork as well as an opportunity to develop leadership and do good for the community.
But in actuality, depending on the particular group, a social fraternity may just be a somewhat elitist club that exists for the purpose of providing a place to drink and pick up girls while you form connections that you hope will carry through the rest of your personal and professional life.
And service and professional organization have service and profession goals.
Here's the thing, you'd really have to go back to your founding at often single-sex institutions to figure out what your group is supposed to be about and then you'd have to contrast that with what your chapter actually does AND THEN, you'd have to figure out what the social and profession organizations at your campus actually do to have your answer.
It seems like a lot of unnecessary effort. Instead just ask yourself what Wooderson would do.