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Originally posted by Delta_theta
I dissagree. I think, at least on my campus, it is more of a seperation of interests, and a seperation of system. The two non-"social" GLO's on my campus, APO and SAI are working in a different system, under a different paradigm, than the rest of us. There are people with duel memebership, but that is slowly dying off. The systems, which could be compatable, currently, aren't. At least here.
be it steriotypes, or just different "social circles" (A very highschool concept in my opinion) as it was once explained to me by a member of SAI who was unhappy with the memebers who were also in "social" sororities, there is something seen at least on one side, if not the other as being incompatable anymore. on my campus, we have all of 1400 students. 52% of the males are greek, 17% of the females. according to our student affairs office. Neither of those numbers includes SAI or APO. SAI and APO do not take part in the normal rushes(for obvious duel membership reasons). And outside of certain joint activites(my fraternity works with APO on the blood drive three times a year), the two systems rarely mix. But, an APO set of letters is rarely seen. APO doesn't get together outside of their activies in any noticable fasion, SAI gets togthere once a term or so, outside of meeting, to do a fundraiser. I know of one set of SAI teeshirts, that were made, and worn on occasion by the members of SAI. They are not cohesive groups here. And anyone with duel membership is MUCH more loyal to their other greek membership.
The resentment comes in when One of the two systems try's to overstep into what the other consideres their teritory. Greek week is a great contentment around here. There are no clear boundries. Who is allowd to do what? The social systems are big into philanthropy, so apo shouldn't get mad when the fraternities end up doing a large number of the MS walks, heart disease gatherings.
In the end, I don't think it is one system feels they are better than the other. Just different. there are a few IN the system who might feel this way, but the systems themslves, as a whole, see it differently.
M.
Sigma Nu
Knox College
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I assume it varies from college to college.
At some schools, I've actually heard non-social greeks said derogatory things about social ones and vice versa. It's a little bit more than a separation of interests.
"An APO set of letters is rarely seen. APO doesn't get together outside of their activities in any noticable fashion. They are not cohesive groups here."
Wow, on my campus and the neighboring ones, we wear our letters. We very often get together outside our activities. Were pretty cohesive. We also do interchapter mixers. As I said earlier it varies from campus to campus.
When it comes to boundaries:
*Service mixing, for example working together on philanthropies and blood drives-OK
*Social mixing, too much liability can play into that-AGAINST
*Non-socials participating in Greek Week, as long as they pay the fees, I see no problem. If so, the name needs to be changed-NEUTRAL
*Socials taking EC positions in non-socials-AGAINST
*At HBCUs, non-NPHC's doing stepshows, I see nothing wrong with either-NEUTRAL