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I'm confused about the statement that affiliation isn't usually the primary affiliation for the member... maybe that's something that applies more to the service/honor orgs? For us, by becoming a DO you have to agree that it is your primary affiliation and that you will not pledge any other sorority... is that different for the other orgs? I'm confused that some orgs can have dual membership... isn't some sort of statement like that required? Or is it just ignored?
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What I meant was that in an NPC, NPHC, NIC, sometimes in a service org, and in musical orgs that are mostly social, people identify themselves publicly as that org - not so much with honor societies or interest groups they are in.
For example, I call myself an Alpha Xi Delta. I am in Sigma Tau Delta (English honor society), Gamma Sigma Alpha (Greek honor), and Order of Omega (Greek leadership), but I don't think of those as "the group I belong to," although I am proud to be a part of them. Similarly, people who are in Alpha Chi Sigma (chemistry interest org), don't generally identify themselves first and foremost as ACS, but whatever Greek group they belong to (if they do).
My litmus test (and this is terrible, I know), would be, if someone goes over to a fraternity house, gets way drunk and dies, what is the newspaper going to print about them? They won't say, "FuzzieAlum, a STD, was at the Pi Pi house when she died." They'll say I'm an AXD. They might say, "Dionysis, an APO, died at the Pi Pi house." Or "Ginger was drinking with her SAI sisters at the Pi Pi house when she died." But if SAI was primarily a professional interest group on your campus, they might not mention it.
Does that make any sense? Sorry to introduce so much death into this thread!