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DeltaTheta: That is how my school was. We say that 10% is greek and that only means, NPC, NPHC, and IFC. APO, you do see the letters but I never heard of much in the way of social events, unless it was a formal or cocktail party. SAI and the rest of music, honors, service and major related greeks were rarely heard from. That could be that we did travel in different circles and neither group paid attention to each other...
We did have a member of KD and SAI and she did say they had ritual and everything else like the NPC groups, but I guess since our campus governing bodies are different and national governing bodies are different then we never really considered anyone out side of the 10% greeks...does that make sense?
Now, we did have Gamma Sigma Sigma and they had socials with a perticualr fraternity...not sure how that works, and they still had them at the fraternity houses which no NPC group did...another source of tention...And with them they did try to join Panhellenic and I think we told them it was an open meeting but it was for NPC groups and since we are governed by such different regualtion that they could particiapte but not be a member...kind of an associate member, like a local would. Plus since the intake process is so different it was hard to relate. It was my understanding that they couldn't deny membership on any basis...is that right? Now there is another service sorority too and I am not sure how that is going!
But on the other side, NPHC groups are governed differently and we still consider all 3(NPC, IFC, NPHC) groups Greek....I think we even have an ALL GREEK Council now with NPC, NPHC & IFC.
I do not think anyone thinks that they are better, just different with different oppurtunities.
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