ilovemyglo-

You have DO's in your chapter?!?!?!?!?!

I'm a DO and we were always told that we were not allowed to be in any other social greek organization, which ended up being a major source of tension for me, since I'd always wanted to go through Rush and was very, very unhappy that I was not permitted to! I know it's for sure in our chapter by-laws (something I tried to get changed while I was Prez) but I have been told it's in our International By-laws as well.

On my campus the music greek orgs (DO, Phi Mu Alpha, and Tau Phi Lambda-local) tend to stick together mostly because we are not welcomed as "equal greeks" by the NIC and NPC chapters on campus (ie. we are not invited to participate in Greek Week, not invited to socials, we are turned down when we invite them to socials, etc.) Well at least not a few years ago when I was there, maybe that's changed now, but I doubt it. All three of us are/were very active organizations both philanthropically and socially, wear our letters all the time, etc. but have had poor experiences with all but one social fraternity (Pikes, probably because half of our girls have or had boyfriends in them!) and Alpha Sigma, a local sorority.