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Originally posted by PM_Mama00:
First of all, as I had said before, BGLO's rarely wear their letters. A lot of people didn't know we had them till we saw a list of Student Orgs. They are more than welcome to participate in Greek Week, but if we never see them around, how are we supposed to ask them? We don't know any of them and it's not like we are able to make the effort to. Parties are not just for Greeks. The fraternties on campus makes extremely large signs advertising their party, whether Alpha Kappa Alphas or Delta Sigma Thetas are there is beyond me. We will talk to anyone who will be social with us. Without that, we never know who they are.
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I am going to attempt to help you out on your quest to achieve Inter-Greek Unity on your campus. I went to Wittenberg University same as Ideal08 and while the BGLOs were not as prominently displayed/known on campus because of numbers, we had a presence within the BLACK community on campus. From time to time we also did programs with other GLOs. For instance we had a party and speaker with the LAmbda Chis as part of Alcohol Awareness.
There are tons of opportunities to network, it is up to YOU to do it.
Here are some suggestions for those of you who would like to bridge the gap in a POSITIVE, ACTIVE manner:
1. Say you are in a class and a BLACK person is in that class, talk to them. I talked to white people all the time in class and learned a lot about them in regards to who they are and how the NPC and IFC worked.
Okay back to this conversation, ask them:
ARE YOU IN A SORORITY/FRATERNITY?
A.If the answer is YES, then you say which one? What are some of your organization's/chapter's service projects? THen you in turn share what your chapter does. You might suggest a sisterhood/brotherhood service project. You can also ask if their chapter would keep your chapter informed of their events/programs,etc. and then you in turn do the same. Our chapter of DST often received mailing from the GLO chapters on campus.
B. If the answer is NO: you ask them who is a member of such BGLO orgs and ask them for contact information.
2. LOOK in your campus directory, if you have one. At Wittenberg, every org, be it GLO, BGLO, Habitat had contact information for each president of each organization.
3. Contact Greek Affairs office for contact information.
4. Attend your campus' BLACK student organizations meeting and introduce yourself and state your interest in meeting with presidents of BGLOs to again bridge the gap.
I am sure there are more than just these four ways, but I find it disheartening by the attitudes of some of you that as BGLOer's we are the ones at fault here.
Being separate does not mean isolated. Differences are a part of EVERY ASPECT of life.