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Originally posted by Ginger
ilovemyglo-
You have DO's in your chapter?!?!?!?!?!
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.
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It comes down to this, social greeks tend to think they are better than non-social ones. For obvious reasons, that I rather not get into.
On the flipside, non-social greeks also tend to think they are better than the social ones. For obvious reasons, that I rather not get into neither.
I think this is the source of the tension.
With my greek background I feel neutral. I think both can work together without either losing their "purpose". It's too bad that many on both sides don't feel that way.
BTW what is a DO?