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Originally posted by LadyBug103
This may not be the appropriate forum for this Question, but I'm hoping that it is...so here it goes!
I live in an area where there are an abundance of Catholic founded colleges and universities. None of these institutions support Greek Letter Organizations. Many even state on their websites under "campus organizations" that they do not support Greek organizations because of the exclusivity of the nature of the groups. I was wondering if this is consistent with all Catholic Institutions or if it is just the geographical area. Does anyone here attend a Catholic founded university that is in a GLO? I know that other denominational based universities support GLO's such as Methodist (That's the only one that I know of actually). Does anyone have any insight into this topic?
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I am an alum of Georgetown University (not to be confused with Georgetown College, which was already mentioned -- hey y'all!) and they did not support Greek life for the same reasons that you have mentioned.
Alpha Phi Omega, Delta Sigma Pi, and Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity and Sorority are all strong there, perhaps because of the absence of the traditional system.
The following BGLO's and LGLO's have had members from Georgetown joining city-wide or core chapters at other schools: Alpha Phi Alpha, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi (no members since the late 90's), Delta Sigma Theta, Phi Beta Sigma (first and only members pledged in 1977), Zeta Phi Beta (first member pledged in '03), Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Lambda Pi Chi, and Malika Kambe Umfazi.
Alpha Epsilon Pi is, to my knowledge, the first general fraternity established at Georgetown. They were established a few years ago, and are not recognized by the university, but of course are recognized by their national organization.