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Originally posted by slamit93
I could be wrong, but my ex gf was a pi phi, and she told me that beta helped with their founding, and are their brother fraternity...
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I'm almost positive that's wrong. I know for sure that Pi Beta Phi does not have a national brother fraternity. I have also never heard that a Beta helped with our ritual.
There is a lot of misinformation out there on GC and elsewhere about "brother/sister" groups. Just for everyone's information:
1. It is very, very rare that a national NPC sorority and NIC fraternity have any sort of relationship to one another nationally. The only exceptions are for orgs like Chi Omega and Kappa Sigma. A Kappa Sigma assisted in the founding of Chi Omega. Chi O's and Kappa Sigs correct me if I'm wrong, though, I do not believe that they have an OFFICIAL brother/sister status. There are a few other groups that this is the case for. As sugar and spice says, there are no OFFICIAL NPC/NIC relationships.
2. The NPHC groups have more formalized brother sister/relations as articulated by starang and others.
3. Obviously, local GLOs can do whatever they want.
4. Where a lot of the misinformation comes from is situations like this:
Fraternity XYZ (local or national) starts a little sister group at some point in the past. These little sisters form group TUV. The TUV sisters become more and more formalized and become local sorority TUV. Then they decide to seek national NPC affilation. They become national group ABC. Well, of course the ABCs still hang out with the XYZs. The XYZs brought their group together in the first place. So one could say that the XYZs helped in the founding of their original group TUV and were their brother org, but nationally ABC does not claim that status with XYZ.
It's important to know your local and national history so that you know which is the case.
Edited to make things a bit clearer.