Just wanted to contribute my 2 cents with a short story about my learning about the greek system. I really didn't know too much about the greek system before entering college. While doing my research about all the different groups I was told by both white and black students that certain groups were BLGOs, black greek letter organizations. I was told that they (BGLOs) did not discriminate, but I only saw black members in these groups. BGLOs did not seem to be culturally/racially diverse at all, while the GLOs were much more diverse. It appeared as though only black people were welcomed as members of "black" greek letter organizations. So, being white, I decided not to even consider these groups and many of my friends did the same. Not because of me having a problem with black people (I do not) but because it really seemed as though these BGLOs were black-only and most people's understanding was that these groups did not welcome other races, especially whites. Many of my friends were/are of different cultural/racial backgrounds and I wanted to be able to share the greek experience with them, and they felt the same way (we were a tight group of friends even before greek life came into the picture). Because of the acceptance towards diversity, GLOs were the only way to go. One of our black friends decided not to pursue going greek because of the great amount of pressure from his family and from the other blacks on campus, they were all against him rushing a GLO which they called a WGLO, even though it was more culturally diverse than the BGLOs. He didn't want to be separated from his real friends by joining a BLGO, he wanted to make his family happy, and at the same time he didn't want to alienate himself from many of the beautiful black girls on campus (who made it clear that they had a problem with him joining a GLO), so, he never joined a fraternity. His family got over him not joining a BGLO since he didn't join a GLO either. Not all of us joined GLOs, and those that did didn't all join the same one. But we did remain a tight group of friends. And all those BGLO members who wanted our friend to join a BLGO instead of a GLO do not even keep in contact with him since graduation. We do. It's funny how we all learned who our real friends are.