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Originally posted by SigTauJake:
Lately, like the last two years, the service sororities have been having mixers with some of the houses on campus, and participating in certain events, usually left up to the social houses.......... one service sorority participated in Greek Sing, although they do not participate in Greek Week... but if they would have placed in the top three, those points they collected would of been wasted, since they do not participate in Greek Week. Is this right?....... They do not pay the same fees on campus, such as Panhel.... I am not sure where I stand...... It is like they are trying to be a social house, but hide behind the letters of a service organization.......... No one on campus watches them when they have "pledges" and they have been known to haze and have pledges for 12+ weeks...... Does this seem strange to anyone else, or is this normal and it is finally just happening at our campus? Let me know.
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Then you say.....
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Originally posted by SigTauJake:
I started this thread, and I DON'T have a problem with Service Greeks. I think they are a great addition to any campus. The problem is when a group that does not follow the IFC and Panhel rules on a campus, starts having mixers with groups that do. We, social groups, pay enormous amounts of money towards insurance to cover our asses. If someone gets hurt at our house, we get in huge trouble.
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Let me say that your initial statement sounds like it has a goal to discourage a relationship from service organizations. the second statement begins to understand but places a barrier in the form of rules. As if or NSO has none to follow. Let's remove all of your mights and maybe's. You have to look at a greek lettered service organization s as just national greek lettered organizations that has service as their primary goal. And their are NSOs that are apart of Pan hell. The point I'm making is just because we are not apart of a council it doesn't mean that our chapter do not have to answer to somebody. If somebody gets hurt? we've had people die within our chapters. So yes it's a big deal and our chapters feel it just like you feel it, maybe even worst. But if we go back to the first statement, we can see that this is a thread that started out to discourage and make sense of what we didn't know about. And as the thread began to grow we achieved more understanding and respect for each others organization. This is doesn't account for the bases of this thread, because the tone is still there. But the excuses are beginning to shrink. There is no reason not to include but this is how it's always been done. Is it possible to peacefully coexist, it happens on several campuses already by these same NSO organizations.
So whats the problem? The problem comes down to the solidification of NSOs and their members while their National has decided not to be apart of any governing council. Something any organization can do. But should the local chapter be shun because of it. These NSO's have to coexist on campus as a GLO as well as other GLOs that are in Councils. We have to attract from the same people and let individuals choose which organization they want to be with. It doesn't provide Non-Counciled NSOs with any
advantage to not be apart, just as it wouldn't hurt any counciled-Social-NSOs to include, co-sponsor, have joint mixers, attend any events with NSO organizations. So I'm like Skeegee4me, there isn't any point to this thread. But I also believe that all GLO's stopping by could learn a little from this thread. It doesn't matter if your for or against it. We both exist. It's the coexistence that you have to accept at an individual level.
JayBEE
[This message has been edited by JayBEE! (edited June 18, 2001).]