I wasn't going to say anything on this, but you all have driven me to it.
PositivelyAKA, I agree with you about basing your founding on the percieved downfalls of other groups. That kind of thing promotes division. Why should I embrace you in love and Greek unity if you start out by saying "I didn't want to have anything to do with you because ya'll were messing up".?
(now I KNOW this isn't going to be popular, but..) I don't see the need for more than the 9 Orgainizations in the Pan currently. In my one chapter of Delta, their is enough diversity for (just about) any young woman to find someone to bond and feel a kinship with. Now I know that if you can find that kind of diversity in one chapter of one org., you can find a chapter somewhere in one of the 4 sororities, 5 fraternities to feel at home. (I'm not including professional orgs.) That being said, the other orgainzations are out there and I wish them God speed in their service.
In terms of stepping, calls, hand signs, colors ect., those are the trappings of greekdom and have very little to do with the real purpose of the organizations. For those of you who pledged non NPHC organizations because of the percieved arogence and hostility, I can tell you that nine times out of ten, when greeks do display these traits they are directly linked to those trappings. (When was the last time you heard of a fight between two BGLOs that was based on a philosophical difference?) If you get caught up in those things, you'll become what you started the orgainizations to get away from.
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