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Originally Posted by texas*princess
Like others have already noted, there is a difference between "professional" GLOs and "honorary" GLOs.
There are (4) types of GLOs:
* Social - e.g. Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Mu, etc - mainly social, though there is a component of philanthropy/education/etc in there
* Professional - your Delta Sigma Pi's & Alpha Kappa Psi's of the world. In addition to the professional aspect, there is also a social side and some chapters are more social than others. One of my favorite Deltasig chapters was on the UT campus. Fun group 
* Service - Alpha Phi Omega - they focus on service projects, but from what I've heard some chapters are more social than others
* Honorary - I was never part of one, but these usually recruited people from, say the college of business or education or engineering, that had a certain GPA. There is no "new member" period there.
I've never heard of Honorary GLOs doing bigs/littles or anything like that. |
Phi Sigma Pi, though an Honors Fraternity, would more fall into your service category, as most service GLOs are orgs you have to pledge, possibly be voted on, and have at least some characteristics with general GLOs.
The names I prefer are (in your same order and definitions):
General (some NPHC members HATE to be labeled "social" -- I don't care because I know what people mean.)
Professional
Recognition (Baird's uses this)
Honor