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Thank you very much for your kind reply. I can speak for all of those involved, because we've asked ourselves that very question, and keep the answer right out in front of us going forward.
Our objective is pretty simple. While we laude and fully support the traditional precepts which led individually to the founding of all the recognized Greek organizations, our position is, as you pointed out, sui generis, we'd be the only distance based and therefore instantly global fraternity in existence. And that is purpose.
Distance learning doesn't offer that, nor should it in our opinion, when it isn't genuine. We believe that sharing a house isn't what makes a fraternity genuine - fraternity, solidarity, mutual support, and a common interest in the pursuit of excellence is what makes the both the experience, and the organization substantial.
Of course, we want the fraternity to gain prestige. It goes without saying that is earned through the contributions the individual members make, both in our professional field, and as members of society. The Freemasons do a good job of that - but the mutual interest and background they share (I am one) is entirely different than that which inspires men from a particular academic niche to found a fraternity.
We're all at AMU because we're professionals, and because we all operate on schedules that do not allow us to engage in a traditional educational experience. Does that mean that we should likewise never be Greek? I think not.
Again, we will not be the model for boys club, puerile, wanna-be's who think it would be swell to wear a ring with Greek letters, or to call each other 'brother' and have no idea what that word means between non-familial men. We believe in the traditional inculcation and investment of fraternity as it relates to the individual member, and to the continuum of highest precepts of the institution itself as a core belief, a philosophy, and as a way of life. A true commitment: each and every member the embodiment of a vow fulfilled.
That is what we have in mind.
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