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Originally posted by Virtuous Woman
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(Your argument is design to disagree. You have to understand what I;m saying. I said. Gamma Sigma Sigma began to lose ground in the service arena. This is the service sector of organizations on campus. They lost many chapters. It is the fallout of making largest service organization a coed organization. Especially when the two organizations had a relationship going. Some chapters even had Alpha Phi Omega in their history as helping them get started. If you can’t see that that is logic behind that you don’t want to see it. Together we were two fraternal organizations against many. Service was being done but you have to also recognize that Gamma Sigma Sigma was not on any council. I think their chances would have been better if they were on a council when Alpha Phi Omega established the female membership. But see, our organizations were hand-in-hand sort or speak while on the same campus. Our organizations were helping legitimize the other as being fraternal organizations because we were sister and brother organizations. Without each other our appearance outside the counciled organizations are that of a club or society. This causes people to go through your chapters instead of staying in them. Remember every greek letter organization on campus is doing service these days.)
If this relationship is "natural" then why aren't ALL chapters of GSS and APO stressed to have this relationship "prosper"?
(The place where it is a natural thing is simple, that’s the way it happened naturally. Women and men got together for a common goal, like they do within Alpha Phi Omega. There was a time where the relationship was just that close. We had our Alpha Phi Omega pledges saying big sister to other Gamma Sigs. Natural in that it is a brother organization to a sister group. If you can’t see the nature in that, then we are talking on the wrong level.)
I'm sure that the ladies of Gamma Sigma Sigma are more than capable of holding their own without the assistance of APO or anyone else.
(I see you like to argue. Everybody can use help every now and then, and we always love having Gamma Sigma Sigma recruite for us. You see, on a black campus it is always good to have another organization that has your back. Because the D9 is always saying something negative about your existence. "They are not that, they are not this" Yadda Yadda. Two voices in the service sector always lifts interest in service organizations.)
( fewer males interested in joing this organization.)
Can you please post some numbers on this? Or at least quote a source.
(Sure, more predominately female chapters are being created. TennState 18 out of 33 and, Lagrange 14 out of 16, Indiana State University’s had 113 members 98 were female. Emory had 75 members 57 were female. And other predominately female chapters say that they have a hard time attracting males. What? I know what I’m talking about.)
Do you REALLY believe that what has made Alpha Phi Omega great is male bonding?
(No, but that was apart of it. But it also wasn’t just service either. If I had to place on one item I would say it was the association with the Boy Scouts of America. But that’s just me. However I would also include that standard of manhood that withstood the test of time. I’m well aware that people join Alpha Phi Omega for different reasons. I will tell you now it wasn’t as simple as just service. Alpha Phi Alpha does service. Kappa Alpha Psi does Service. Even Kappa Kappa Psi does service.)
I think that brotherhood is a vital part of Alpha Phi Omega but when the dust clears, I want Alpha Phi Omega to be known for its service to others. I'm sorry I think that there is more to life than male bonding and there's definitely more to Alpha Phi Omega than that.
(See there that “I want” again. “I Want” is what changed this organization from what it was to what it is today. People got in this organization and change it because they said “I Want” instead of saying “It has”. I think manhood is a vital part of Alpha Phi Omega. I think that you should never re-write or white-out your history, you should only add to it. I really do agree with you when you say that they is more to Alpha Phi Omega than male bonding. But you know it’s in there. And there is more to Alpha Phi Omega than service. But you know it’s in there.)