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Originally posted by Dionysus
My thread is about REPUTATIONS and how people percieve these chapters, not facts about these orgs.
I am a founding member of an APO chapter, so yes I do know a lot about APO. 
And yes, these questions do make sense. If you knew anything about interaction on college campuses then you would've understood my questions.
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Since I've been a student at 4 different colleges at one time or another, and lived on campus for several years at two of them, I am quite familiar with campus interaction.
Your questions didn't make a whole lot of sense.
A lot of the 'reputation' of the non-social GLOs on many campuses is many times due to the preconceived attitudes of the other orgs on campus (both social GLOs and others). If you read some of the threads about 'are non-social GLOs greek', you see that many social GLO members put non-social GLO in a certain category without having interacted with those orgs or their members. Just as many GLO members have to work over the general publics perceptions of GLO (ex: Animal House, Old School, etc) and show they aren't like that, so too many of the non-social GLO have to get over attitudes of them being 'not true Greeks', etc.
On campuses where non-social GLOs have done a good job of getting social GLO members to join, this attitude may not exist. But when you have to get over the 'I can only join one GLO' mindset, it can be hard on other campuses.
Does this answer your questions?