Your thoughts: Doing events with other fraternities/sororities?

[anonymouse17]

note- I'm not talking about greek week.

In the past around 2012-2013, the mentality of some brothers was always along the lines of "We do not want to get mixed up with social fraternities." So alot of the times, it was not agreed/voted upon to do events with social fraternities and sororities.

Fall 2012, We hosted a leukemia and Lymphoma awareness event. We eventually found out that a sorority on campus was also doing the same thing within the same timeframe. So it became a co-hosted event. Rather than 2 organizations hosting the same event 1 week apart. We just did it together.

Some brothers were a bit upset that we were co-hosting with a social sorority. The stigma surrounding socials bothered several brothers.

3 years later. Things are vastly changing.
There was an invite by a sorority to join their inter-greek philanthropy sporting event. Several brothers did form a team and attend the event.
Wasn't as big of an issue this time around.

So it had me wondering. How do other chapters feel about it?

-I'm not aware if there is any bylaw against co-hosting service events. if there is. I need to look at it again.


- my thoughts:
When it comes to things like parties/mixers, and greek week. We don't attend those as a fraternity. We don't party with our letters on. We don't do greek week.

When it comes to co-hosting awareness events. Information booths. I don't see an issue with this since we're still doing service. It actually feels like a bit of dis-service to the campus by refusing to co-host events with another org and doing the same event in the same month and they both are basically the same thing.

Attending inter-greek philanthropy sports tournaments. That one I'm not sure. A bit of a gray area for me. Since it is for a cause. I don't see a big deal. But I have a cousin who is in a sorority and she told me about some stuff that has occurred (partying and drinking) at a few inter-greek events. It's kind of iffy.