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Originally Posted by SOPi_Jawbreaker
Since nobody has posted from the Asian GLO point of view, I thought I'd throw in my $0.02.
My sorority was founded in 1930 during a time when there were still many discriminatory laws against Asians and many hate crimes committed against Asians. Our founders were double minorities...they were women and they were Asian. They banded together to provide support for one another, to promote education, and to assist those in need.
While our philanthropies are broad and not specific to one race, we do have events that specifically promote Asian-American awareness.
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First of all I wanna say I absolutely love the SoPi girls here, they're amazing. I'm actually attending the SoPi Unity Party up in LA this saturday night.
Anyways, seeing as how UCSD is 50% Asian, I think it's pretty obvious that the Asian-American community wanted to see some multicultural, specifically Asian Frats and Sororities. Politically correct, I guess they're called Asian-American "Interest" Fraternities and Sororities. We have Lambda Phi Epsilon, Pi Alpha Phi, and Psi Chi Omega representing the Asian frats and alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Kappa Zeta Phi, and Sigma Omicron Pi as the three Asian sororities on campus. Rho Delta Chi is a small multicultural sorority that is predominantly Asian, but isn't considered an Asian sorority. Beta Omega Phi is trying to colonize here from San Diego State University, but it seems like in the past few years Lambdas have tried to stop other Asian frats from colonizing...so we'll see how that goes. Asian frats just offer a family away from home that might be better suited for Asians.
Personally as an Asian and as a proud brother of Sigma Phi Epsilon, I feel that the family I have as an Ep is beyond comparison. It's just a matter of comfort, generally speaking most of my friends are Asian, and even that I didn't join an Asian frat. SigEp is historically known to be insanely diverse, I think our chapter is about 50% White, 30% Asian and 20% Latino so things are real good here.
Bottom line, it's all a preference.
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