I'm a member of Phi Sigma Pi (coed honor fraternity), and we do function somewhat as a social organization. We actually have a tripod of ideals: scholarship, leadership, and fellowship, which means that we focus on academic stuff, service, and of course social stuff. We have rush, bigs and littles, rituals, secret stuff, parties and formals, letter shirts, chapters all over the country, convention, and all that.
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Originally posted by That1LoudChick
What I don't appreciate is that fact that our honors fraternity makes it a point to act social Greek- they interview you before you join and make sure you're a "right fit" fit their organization. I see a problem with this considering the fact that generally honors fraternities are only picky about their member selection when it comes to GPA.
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You wouldn't be talking about Phi Sigma Pi, would you? (I know we have a chapter on your campus.) If so, they have good reasons to conduct their rush the way they do. We ideally take everyone who fits the GPA requirements and decides that they want to be a part of what we do, but we also impose limits on how many people we can take per semester. If a chapter has more interested rushees than open spots in that semester's initiate class, they have to have a rush process to decide who to invite to join. A large portion of our activities are more social in nature, and if you're not a "good fit" for the chapter, you're probably not going to enjoy hanging out with us, and will probably not be a very active brother. If we're picking and choosing between rushees, we do want the ones who fit in best with the chapter and will be active within the chapter. The chapter at your school may have that situation, where they have more interested people than spots to be filled and have to have some way of choosing.
As for how the traditional social GLOs feel about us on my campus, honestly I don't think many people know we exist. It doesn't help that my chapter is pretty small (~30 brothers). PSP isn't trying to be like a traditional social GLO (and there are people in my chapter who would violently protest if we were), we just go around doing our thing and letting them do theirs. We have a couple of people (including me) who are also members of social GLOs, and that works just fine.