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Originally posted by suntzu1963
I tried to do a search, but nothing came up so....
Tell us about the relationship between Black Greek Letter Orgs. and other Greek Letter Orgs. at your college/university. Do/did they get along? Work together on a large greek-wide council in conjunction with their NPHC/IFC/NPC/MGC? Fellowship (hang out, socialize)? Do community service together?
At UVA, orgs. seemed to get along fine when there were efforts to get to know one another (but the orgs. were mostly self-segregated the majority of the time I was there *1996-2000*).
The leadership from all councils meet together from what I know of from time to time and the training that all orgs. must complete to get/keep their good standing at UVA is done amongst all organizations.
There weren't any efforts to do service together that I know of until recently when there was a blood drive competition between all the orgs. from UVA and UMaryland (or so I heard).
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I attend The University of South Florida in Tampa, FL...we have all 9 org's in NPHC, 13 I believe in Pan, 7 or so in IFC and 7 in UGC (our multi cultural/latin coucnil). The unity among us was non-existant. UGC and NPHC knew of IFC/PAN but they didnt know of us...some even thought we were "Fake Greeks." Lately, with our new Greek Life coordinator-a Delta and the greatest person Ive met-she has implied certain activities and restructured a new focus for all org's to help each other out, support each other, and do events in a cross-council type way. We had a President's retreat in which we realized many pros and cons and many strengths and weaknesses held by all 4 councils. It's helped a lot and the 4 councils are underway of a new existance. This could be something to look into. We have monthly Presidents roundtables (pres of each org and council), advisor roundtables, and each council has a roundtable as well.