SigTauJake - I'm glad your IFC voted to stop the mixing thing. We did that at our school too - fraternities mixed w/ the dance team, sororities mixed with sports teams or Pershing Rifles (the ROTC frat who was an entity unto themselves) and it did cause bad feelings.
If service fraternities and/or sororities want to participate in Greek week it should be to (drum roll) perform a SERVICE, like refereeing Olympics or ushering at Greek sing. Like people have pointed out, Greek week and the events aren't free. That's what your IFC and Panhel dues partly pay for. If you didn't pay your dues as a member, you couldn't participate - why should it be different for organizations?
gamma_girl, you said many GSS members are in "social" sororities also. Well to say that GSS should be able to have mixers like the "social" sororities - to me that sounds like double dipping. Obviously you should have social events - I was in APO and we had MANY of them. But we would have never had a mixer-type event. We were proud of our "unique" status as a service fraternity and didn't want to muddy it by doing things that were so strongly associated with "social" Greeks.
Service sororities and fraternities are special - be proud of your specialness!
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