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Originally posted by allsmiles_22
It's bad enough many people don't take us seriously when the word sorority comes out of our mouths. It does us all an injustice when you have these cracker jack box orgs saying they recruit only fine people, what size their shoe is or how many babies they have especially since we are working hard in our communities to achieve our targets.
I also have the same feelings towards new graduate chapters being formed in areas where there are already a good number of them. Members say I don't like this chapter or any of the other chapters within this 20-mile radius, so I'll just charter another one. IMO we are diluting our resources and or org when we do this. Different topic though.
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I PROBABLY shouldn't say this but once upon a time (when I was stupid) I joined two different GLOs. My reason for joining the first org, a sorority, was because I thought I would never get into a BGLO to save my life. The stories got to me about the "requirements" and I was, as I said before, stupid.
I left the first one becuase the founder, who was significantly younger than me, started doing some CRAZY stuff. She was not taking care of business so to speak.
The second one, Multicultural Frasority, I was there from the beginning. The conception and all. I left them as well. The Frasority was really a joke in my eyes because what the men wanted was to be the leaders and have the women as some sort of "sweethearts." And if I wanted to be a sweetheart, I would have became one YEARS ago!
I say all this because many people who start organizations like the idea of forming an sorority or a frat or frasority. They often split from other groups, in case of the second group I joined. They want to foster some kind of kinship amongst each other. But in my experience, they don't. Its a clique that wanted to be like the big dogs, whether its the group they left, LGLO, BGLO, etc.
Not that they are copying the molds that are set forth, many feel that they can enhance the image of what at GLO is in general. Not that one GLO is perfect and not that these new heads are perfect either.
When I was young and stupid (I have been out of the Greek scene as a member of a GLO for over two years), I thought I could make a difference in the world. To make that difference I was well aware that one person can not do it alone. That being part of a group make things happen. Now, I don't know these other groups or their mindset, but that is my opinion on what is the creation of these type of groups.
ETA: I have been asked would I join another GLO on different non-affliated occasions. I said yes. And only to an organization that is established with some kind of morals that I am trying to achieve in my life.
my two cents...
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