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Originally Posted by Kansas City
Although your explanation is not as clear as I was hoping for, I can guess at what you are getting at. I would like to know what you want each group to understand about the other. For example, knowing how they conduct meetings, use for t-shirt vendors and where they are holding formals (all of those "internal operations") are not going to provide you with the depth that I believe that you are looking for and the rest is private "secret society" information that again, won’t give you what I think you are wanting.
As DSTCHAOS explained, you need to get involved with the Greek Life meetings and I would add Order of Omega. Only by making friends and contacts outside of your organization will you ever feel unity in the Greek system. But then you have to ask yourself why stop there and why not strive for unity among all student organizations at MSU regardless of Greek affiliation? Referring to sjsoffer's post, I wonder if maybe you are trying so hard to create an ideal situation (world peace) that you cannot sit back and appreciate the positives of the current situation.
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What I am wanting to get out of this has nothing to do with t-shirt vendors, and socials. And I am not naive to believe that well will all be singing in harmony and holding hands as a result. To start off with, I hope that as I have stated before, that an advantagous relationship can be started as a base, which can eventually build. I do realize that essentially Rome was not built in a day, I may not see this "relationship" come to be in my stint as a member of the Greek community, but what I can do is help to build a foundation for not necessarily unity amoung all Greeks, for now, but a co-hesiveness.
As far as this idea of "unity" amoung ALL organizations, that has actually beginning to be addressed. The Missouri State Unity Council was formed out of our SGA to address the same issues that have been seen in the Greek community. All student organizations (there are well over 250, including Greek Chapters) are welcome to be represented to address, discuss, and take initiative for action.
And there are indeed positives. We are moving towards positive progression. But I am sorry that I am not content to rest on my laurels.