honor societies

[cutie_cat_4ever]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

Like others have already noted, there is a difference between "professional" GLOs and "honorary" GLOs.

There are (4) types of GLOs:

* Social - e.g. Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Mu, etc - mainly social, though there is a component of philanthropy/education/etc in there

* Professional - your Delta Sigma Pi's & Alpha Kappa Psi's of the world. In addition to the professional aspect, there is also a social side and some chapters are more social than others. One of my favorite Deltasig chapters was on the UT campus. Fun group

* Service - Alpha Phi Omega - they focus on service projects, but from what I've heard some chapters are more social than others

* Honorary - I was never part of one, but these usually recruited people from, say the college of business or education or engineering, that had a certain GPA. There is no "new member" period there.

I've never heard of Honorary GLOs doing bigs/littles or anything like that.

I can't say for other Honorary Fraternities, but Tau Beta Pi, which is an Honorary Engineer Fraternity, does have a "new member period" which you are required to participate in certain activities and accumulate a certain amount of community service hours, and also be in an interview before you are initiated (which include polishing the metal statue like what jessicaelaine said, except I opt out from it) . They also go through the history of Tau Beta Pi and such.

But ditto to what you said, I've never heard Bigs or Littles in these Fraternities, and it'll be weird if they do have it. For my chapter, we do have socials, but it's more like a networking, and besides, most of us are already friends before we were initiated.

I personally, on the other hand, annoys me when the main reason why they don't join Honorary Fraternities because they don't want to go Greek. But they don't understand that Honorary Fraternities are TOTALLY different then social Greeks. So it's sad to see that people turned down such great chance to enhance their resume just because they think the two are the same.

[CuriousWildcat]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

Good question.

I would never go to a social event sponsored by an honor society, a professional fraternity, a music fraternity, or a service fraternity and actually expect to have fun. Events sponsored by such groups are networking opportunities and nothing more.

We have multiple professional frats and sororities. We have 4 music ones, two are considered service and the other two are considered social. I know for a fact that at least 3 of them have big/littles, formals, wear their letters, and have social functions at least once a month. Some of these functions are all four combined and I can tell you they are a blast.