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Originally Posted by emb021
As I understand it, APO-Phil as an organization is co-ed. However, the men are in fraternity chapters and the women in sorority chapters. At the same school you would have an APO Fraternity Chapter and an APO Sorority Chapter with the same chapter designation. So the individual chapters are NOT co-ed, but the overall organization is because both the Fraternity & Sorority chapters are part of the same org.
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i know this thread was posted years ago but i would just like to enlighten my brothers in the USA why Alpha Phi Omega Philippines is named both a fraternity and sorority.
APO philippines initially started as a fraternity. A lot of women helped the fraternity and they were organized into auxillary sorority chapters. upon the approval of admission of women into AphiO, the "auxillary" was later dropped.
Alpha Phi Omega Philippines is co-ed. The fraternity and sorority are not separate organizations. Each school has one chapter with a designated chapter name. A chapter may be composed of males and females. All the males in APO-Phils are the "fraternity" while the females are the "sorority". In other words, the term "fraternity" refers to the male members while "sorority" refers to the female members. But in the end, we are still one: Alpha Phi Omega Philippines.
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