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Originally posted by sugar and spice
I get the feeling that some co-ed fraternities (as well as local GLOs, non-traditional groups like service-based, GLOs at schools with non-traditional Greek systems, and any Greeks who don't identify with the mainstream SEC/Big 12/Big 10/PAC 10 huge traditional Greek system model) look down on being considered "Greek" even though they are and that Robbins bought into that . . . It's like they want the benefits of being identified as Greek (brother/sisterhood, social life) but they aren't willing to take on the negatives (specifically stereotypes).
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We have that problem with my APO chapter all the time: Are we greek? Are we not greek? People say things like, you shouldn't have so many social events if you're not a social fraternity. But there are definitely distinctions between social, service and non-traditional GLOs. The founder of APO was an SAE so it was modeled after the social fraternities, but it's not quite the same thing. (For example, we can't have houses or throw open parties.)