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Originally Posted by ErinKathleenNJ
I have no problem with people being in multiple organizations. I"m in a service and an academic one. In my chapter I don't think anyone does either. However, we once had a pledge who was in another social group...it was a Latin one...and he would ALWAYS wear his other letters to our chapter meetings while he was pledging. Can't say I was a fan of that.
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Well, see, that the thing.
No one should have an issue with members being involved in multiple orgs. Heck, in the early issues of our National Magazine, this was something we were proud of and even listed all the other groups our members were also part of.
The instance you give is similiar to what others see and annoyies many. Too often, especially some of those in social GLOs, seem to take the attitude that one can only 'truly' be part of (loyal to) one organization. Or many times, they can't seem to balance their involvement with more then one group. This leads to them ALWAYS doing stuff with their social GLO whenever there is a choice between doing things with their social or with APO.
On one of the main discussion areas of greekchat, this general topic has come up in the past several times. There seems to be an attitude amoung some social GLO members that they can 'truly' be part of (or loyal to) only one org. And for them, its their social. They can't seem to grasp the idea that one CAN be part of several different group, and be active (loyal) to all of them. I have always viewed this as a limiting view and have never understood it. If you look at people from our parents generation, many of them, both in college and afterwards, were involved with several different groups. Each met certain 'needs' for them, and many felt it important for making connections with different groups of people.
I always look back at my parents. My dad is a member of a social and two professional fraternities (business and law) in college. For all I know, he was probably involved in other groups there as well. After college, he was active as an Elk, Optimist, and Rotarian (even being an officer in several of these groups at different times), as well as being a member of a country club and sailing/yacht club, and probably a few others. I am sure many of these groups he join for their networking/connections, etc., but these were only some of the reasons.
I'm involved in several other groups, and if you look at many of our national officers, the same is true to them. As I mentioned, I have yet to figure out the original of this 'you can be in only one' attitude that too many GLO members have.
--KnightShadow
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