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Originally posted by emb021
What I've seen on many campuses is that all the social fraternities and sororities are organized into an inter-fraternity council of some sort. Thus all the social are lumped into a group and refered to as "the Greeks". Everyone else, including APO and all non-social GLO, are organized into a "non-Greek" inter-organization council. .... All of this adds to people's perceptions that the term "Greek" only applies to the social GLO. And this is true to many inside and outside social GLO.
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But all you are saying is echoing my points that what is preceive to be non-greek, is what ths social organizations are describing as not-them. They have created their label and any associated organization as being "Greek". They have given themselves a name, and created the mystique that all else is not-them, there term "not-Greek". However this is: (The labeling of others in a condesending way.) So you can choose to be labeled and accept your title or you can label yourself.
We should care less what the mystique of the campus has generated and take pride in being a name not a non-name. I choose "Service Greek". Because it gives the individuals the best understanding of who we really are. Not some term that social desire us to be.
This simple-grouping is can be demeaning. The socials have many people in many places within the administrative structure. It is much easier to get an explaination like these are "the Greeks" and these are everybody else. When it should be disseminated into Social GLO's, Service GLO's and Professional Org's. It is so bad now that the Socials are calling themselves Service Orgs. Why, Because some are and to others it gives them a greater purpose. Almost every GLO is doing some service now.
We have to pull out of the simple-grouping arena, even if it looks like we stand alone. Some schools don't even call Alpha Phi Omega a fraternity and have us listed under Organizations. Which gives an individual the belief that our organization is a campus club who adopted greek letters. We have to persistently request a new group call "other fraternities" if they have us not included in the fraternity section and "Service Greeks" if we are not included in the GLO section. We don't just have to except where they place us. And most campuses will go the distance to label you correctly. But you will not know until you ask.