Unless you yourself have joined a professional or other type of GLO, you don't really get what it's all about. Also each individual chapter can also be different.
I joined Deltasig my sophomore year and even though we were a "professional" GLO, there was also a lot of social things about it. When I tranferred schools, the chapter up here was waaaaay social. We even had "mixers" (for lack of better word) with the other business fraternities on our campus in the form of kickball tournaments and fun things like that where the active & alums of each org. were able to hang out with each other. We have formals, group outings (just like some sororities have "sisterhood events"), we had selective bidding, a pledging process, rituals, membership education sessions (which after I joined ADPi found those sessions were very similar to ADPi's Total Membership Education sessions) and we even did a lot of professional stuff like touring companies & interview tips and all that stuff.
Basically what I'm trying to say is some chapters are more active than others. In ADPi and all other GLOs, some chapters do more than others. Some are probably more social than others. It just depends on the atmosphere and how things are on the campus.
To dismiss all non-IFC/NPC/NPHC orgs as psuedo fraternities based on what some people have told you is pretty ignorant. My DSP brothers are like family to me... just as my ADPi sisters are. In your definition that would make them a Fraternity wouldn't it?
Some of my best friends today are people that I pledged with and met when I first joined DSP. Just a couple of months ago, I found out one of my coworkers is also a Deltasig, and we went out to lunch and now we're pretty good friends. The same thing probably would have happened if I had found out she was an ADPi. Also, when it came to school stuff, I connected more with my DSP friends then I did with the ones in ADPi. And it was mainly because I knew the people in my DSP chapter had taken the classes I was having trouble with, or they could tell me what professors not to take, or when the best time in the year to take a certain class. When I first joined ADPi, I didn't really have that connection because I was one of very few business majors at the time, and I was also the only one in my entire chapter with my major. Nothing at all wrong with that, but it was good to know that I still had people I could talk to if I had questions about the business courses. The cool thing is that I connected with ADPi members on other areas and that's why I love ADPi too
Like everything in life, your experiences in professional/service/other GLOs and even your social GLO is what you make out of it. If you want it to be something just to put on your resume, then that is all it ever will be. If you want it to be a fun organization filled with people you connect with, and experiences you'll never forget, then that's what it will be.
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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Because they were created with very different intentions. Most of the professional fraternities center around one major. At most campuses..camp uh...campi, they exist to bring people together who are interested in for say, real estate, or business, or psychology, etc. They count and are good for resume as leadership expeirnce but in social glos, you are there because you want to be, you say to other people, by being in a Fraternity, that these men here with me are my Brothers and I love them, and we have all sworn on what we hold most sacred to keep the vows of true friendship, upon which Brotherhood is based. A Fraternity is a group of friends, who are so close to each other that it feels like family. That is what being means. Just because you have a cool t shirt and a secret handshake and maybe called brother, doesn't mean its the same thing. I have brothers who were in other pseudo greek orgs. No one can be more than one type of Greek. You can't be from two city-states at the ancient olympics, so when it comes down to it, which are you're letters, its always the one that represtes the people that you choose to be friends with.
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