non-Greek?

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Originally posted by JayBEE!!


It actually doesn't matter what the socials think. It matters what the campus individuals think. The problem is that there is more social members on campus than there are service members. That's why it is always good to have another service GLO on campus. Especially a sister org. Because then you help separate your organization from just the special interest organizations. When other organizations shun you, the campus sees that. And if you have another organization that will be in your corner regardless, you have the potential of drawing greater interest.

What I've seen on many campuses is that all the social fraternities and sororities are organized into an inter-fraternity council of some sort. Thus all the social are lumped into a group and refered to as "the Greeks". Everyone else, including APO and all non-social GLO, are organized into a "non-Greek" inter-organization council.

Adding to this, the social GLOs will have an assigned time when they do rush (ie "the Greek Rush"). As APO chapters are not (and cannot) be part of these 'social greek inter-fraternity councils', they usually can't have their Rush at the same time.

All of this adds to people's perceptions that the term "Greek" only applies to the social GLO. And this is true to many inside and outside social GLO.