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Originally posted by Tom Earp
Question, When did any Org. become better than the others?
We had the BGLOS, and the GLOS, Fraternity and Soroity!
Now there are MGLO's!
Where do we as the Divine or Elite Place them!?
Do LIMBO come to mind!?
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can you say NICKNAME? Its not about any group of organizations being "better" than another. It's not that dang deep.
"The Divine Nine" refers to the nine organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Before the Iotas joined, we were the "Elite Eight" or the "Great Eight" depending on who you asked. IF multicultural orgs were members of the NPHC, THEN the "Divine Nine" or some other moniker would apply. HOWEVER, since there aren't any MCGLOs in the NPHC, "Divine Nine" and "D9" don't apply to them. If the MCGLOs develop a council and they want to be called the "Tenacious Twenty," it doesn't mean that they're better than anyone, it's just want they want their NICKNAME to be. It's very similar to the way I know that when someone, anyone, refers to "NPC sororities," I know they're not talking about Delta because Delta isn't in the National Panhellenic Conference. It doesn't leave anyone out in "limbo," it just means that MCGLO's aren't a member of our council.
Like the "nitpicks" others have mentioned, it's not a hard concept to grasp.
[rant] why do we continually have to defend why/how we do things? i know it's not everyone, but there are just enough "isolated" incidents, like Tom's post and whomever wants to ask why minority based greeks "still" exist, to piss people off. it's one of the "little things" that cause some of us to answer the way we do. think about it. how would you feel if it seemed like everytime you turned around, someone was asking why your org exists or why your organization or council chooses to call itself what it does? from personal experience, i can tell you it gets pretty old pretty damn fast. [/rant]
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