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Originally posted by gamma_girl52
I just wanted to add...
I noticed that someone made a comment about the white chapters of my sorority being all about service. That's totally not true at all...my chapter is small, only 6, and all black women. We did almost 300 hours of service this semester and averaged 45 hours per sister, and I'm very proud of that. In order to stay active in Gamma Sig each chapter member has to do a minimum of 15 hours per semester. No matter what the color, all Gamma Sigs are about serving our communities. And my chapter definitely does that.
Also on the duplication...to each his own in terms of opinion. I'm seeing the sign that is similiar to SGRho fading out, at least where I am. There is one that we all use, but again it's by region. The call...it doesn't have anything to do with either Alpha Kappa Alpha or Delta Sigma Theta at all. But it's all about perceptions. I have had sisters had thier letters torn off their person (at Ohio State, no less) by members of other sororities because the colors look to close to thiers, or the call, and other stuff. Gamma Sigs have gotten into verbal/physical confrontations with other greeks over little things like this...I know everybody has pride in their organizations, and that's cool. You should. But we shouldn't be getting to the point where we want to start fighting amongst each other. There's a big community out there-we should be focusing on what we can and should be doing for them rather than fight about calls, signs, and whatnot.
I admire all the sororities of the Nine for what they've done for black women and the community. Many Gamma Sigs go on to become members of AKA, of DST, of Zeta, and of SGRho and continue to excel in service and also stay active in Gamma Sig.
Sorry this got so long. Feel free to PM me if you have a question.
Always in Service....
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Sounds good, but still a cop out. The majority of your orgs don't do handsigns, have calls, line #'s, step, etc, yet a few chapters do. They decide to do things very similar to established NPHC orgs and then ask that no one care. Ask 90% of the membership of Alpha Phi Omega what is an APhiQ? Q has nothing to do with APOmega. It is specific to Omega Psi Phi (with a fraternal significance) The same with the Omega brand. Why combine another sororities call when a call has nothing to do with your org? Why do a hand sign when most of your membership wouldn't recognize it? WHY? WHY? WHY?