New Organizations

aopirose · #1 11-28-2001, 04:33 PM

While procrastinating today, I found two new, at least to me, organizations exclusively for members of the armed forces. Sigma Phi Psi (www.sigmaphipsi.org) is a military, educational, service & social sorority that focuses and places great emphasis on the complete woman. Omega Delta Sigma, National Veterans Fraternity (www.omegadeltasigma.org) is a non-profit corporation founded by collegiate servicemen that saw the need for unity within the collegiate veterans on campus.

I thought that they were very interesting and I wish them good luck.

carnation · #2 11-28-2001, 04:37 PM

Hmm. Now that is interesting! My husband's 3 uncles came back from WWII and were older than the average student (along with many others) but pledged Kappa Sig together anyway. They became legendary

and had lots of fun but I know there were times they felt awkward.

MoxieGrrl · #3 11-28-2001, 05:32 PM

aopirose: That is really interesting! I'm going to have to check those sites out! Do a lot of chapters exist of these organizations?

A lot of the Sigma Nu's here are in the Marine reserves. (We don't have a ROTC program)

aopirose · #4 11-28-2001, 05:58 PM

Well from the website, it seems that the sorority has 1 chapter in Georgia but they seem to do mass (centrally located) initiations. I think that the intent is that these woman would go back to their bases and be the founding mothers of chapters there.

The fraternity has two chapters and 13 interest groups if I counted the dots correctly. The Alpha chapter is at Florida.

Hopefully, we can get some of their members on GC so that they can give us more information.

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Originally posted by MoxieGrrl
aopirose: That is really interesting! I'm going to have to check those sites out! Do a lot of chapters exist of these organizations?

A lot of the Sigma Nu's here are in the Marine reserves. (We don't have a ROTC program)

AlphaChiGirl · #5 11-28-2001, 06:55 PM

That sounds really cool. I imagine it's hard, for someone who's done a few years in the military to go back and be in college...bridging two worlds and feeling a little awkward in both.

I know of more people who have come back from the armed services and been in NPHC groups, it's probably a little easier because NPHC groups put a different emphasis on maturity and seriousness of academic purpose, and probably attracts more older students than NIC or NPC groups.

Either way, these orgs sound great! I take it they're primarily social?