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Originally posted by Diamond4
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. [/QUOTE
I was at USF from 96-00 and 02-04 and greek life has come a long way but STILL has a LOOOOONG way to go. During undergrad, the only time IFC and NPC even approached NPHC orgs was to teach them to step (let's not go into that; there's another thread about that already
). They looked at NPHC orgs. like step children. When I was in grad school, some of the IFC and NPC orgs. got greek housing and they just thought their $*&# didn't stink...an NPHC org had a coming out show in the Greek Quad (an area in greek housing for ALL greeks) and members of an NPC group said as they walked by "what are they doing here? They're not supposed to be here".
I must say that the new greek coordinator (who is my girl!) is doing great things for greek life at USF because having a meeting between the councils would have never worked back in the day.