Latino Greek Letter Organizations

Private I · #1 06-19-2005, 11:40 AM

Tom could you elaborate please? Do you mean on a nationwide level, as in a collective umbrella for all governing councils? At FSU we have a Greek Activities Council that functions over all 4 councils in attempting to bring them together, but I dont know if you meant something like that or something completely different...

TotallyWicked · #2 03-13-2007, 02:58 PM

I'm reviving this thread!

Many people have mentioned about multicultural representation through a Latino org; I go to a predominantly white institution, the Latino population is about 10% with FAR FEWER being Latino males, while our numbers may be small, I know it is nothing compared to schools like Indiana University, Purdue, and the Ivy League Schools (where we have chapters), being that in schools like these the Latino male population is very low (along with the Black male population), do you think people'll take a fraternity (or sorority) seriously if ALL the members of the chapter were White? Or would it be viewed as a mainstream org practicing a philanthropy a Pan Americanism (as an old mainstream fraternity did back in the 1920's and 30's), hopefully this is making sense to all of you, I've just bumped into plenty of folks who go to PWI's with LGLO's on campus and the majority of their members are not Latino, rather African American or white...i guess they [the GDI's] felt they wouldn't be able to understand the culture if they're not fully in it (not going to comment on that right now).

LTA4 · #3 03-13-2007, 03:08 PM

I don't think it would be a matter of being taken "seriously", because I don't think other Greeks would treat them differently and risk being thought of as racist, and assuming that the racial make-up of the chapter comes from a phenomenon at that school, I would think that other chapters would have similar situations.

I think it would just affect the kind of people that are drawn to the organization at first. I'm sure a few people would be drawn to the novelty of it, and others would avoid it altogether. But again, if this is affecting all of the chapters at that school, then it may not have a major impact on one chapter. Either way, I would hope that people would base their decisions on the national organization and not just the local chapter, which I know that some people do.

I'm pretty sure, however, that this is a very unlikely situation. It's much more likely that the chapter would just go defunct if there was a shortage of that org's "target" group.