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I personally believe Greeks are doing more service than ever before.
However, it would be difficult for a university to require community service as a condition for recognition. Are the hockey team, the cheer squad, the young Democrats, the role-playing society, and the GLBA required to do service for recognition? No. Their purpose isn't service. Most GLOs, too, do not mention service to others in their purposes (there are exceptions). We do service because we believe it is important to make us better people and to give back, but fundamentally we are SOCIAL organizations.
Doing more service is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but all the service in the world won't help us if we don't clean up our act socially. If my chapter single-handedly ends world hunger but forces our pleges to drink to death, have we fulfilled our mission? Have we furthered Greek life? Have we built a responsible sisterhood. No.
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