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Originally posted by nvr_envy
I'm a member of an APO Chapter at a University with 11 fraternities and 9 sororities and we have the hardest time getting recognition. The school won't recognize us as greek because we're co-ed, so they consider us more like a "club" than a greek fraternity. And the other sororities and fraternities look at us and wonder who we are, where we've come from, and whose letters we've stolen! I actually had 1 brother tell me she was walking down the hall and some sorors confronted her saying, "why are you wearing those letters? That's not a real fraternity?"
Although our chapter was on the brink of non-existence, we have new members and are in full swing. This fall we plan to do a ton of events and advertising to get our name out there but I just wanted some ideas from other chapters on how to cope. Have any of your chapters had similar problems?
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On almost all campuses, the term "Greek" is used to refer to the social fraternities/sororities. APO is almost always lumped in with the other clubs and orgs on campus. Does your campus not have any professional or honor greek letter orgs? Do you have any business, law, science GLOs?
You may need to emphasis that we are a National Service Fraternity and that we are co-ed. Seems to you need to educate your 'fellow greeks' that social GLOs are NOT the only Greeks out there.
Not sure if that helps or not.