Does being a sophomore or above matter when looking to join a fraternity?

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by macallan25

This is exactly why I don't like responding to you....you have the reading comprehension skills of a piece of bark. I'm narrow minded because my priorities are with the chapter in which I pledged? You are an idiot.



I never said it did dumbass. At what point in my response did I say anything like that? What the hell is wrong with you? I live in the South, if you didn't realize that. My friends all go to schools in the South. Southern Greek life and chapters in the South are what I know. Sorry if I'm not going to pretend that i'm big time SAE buddies with every guy at every chapter nationwide.



Are you kidding me? You equate loyalty to your own chapter as showing disrespect to the overall organization? Sweet God you are a moron. Please explain this to me because my head is about to explode.



No Tom......people at other schools don't have any pull over what happens with our chapter. Me and my fraternity brothers at Texas have that control. The decisions that WE make as a chapter are what we "live and die by".





Why do you write mindless crap like this? Nothing about any of this has to do with this thread or even the question that you posed. You asked a very simple question...........and the response you got wasn't what you wanted to hear. I would imagine if I said something along the lines of "Oh gee willikers, every SAE at every school in the country is my eternal brother and I will look upon him the same as I do my brothers at my respective chapter. Its ok that they don't have anything in common with me and don't share the same ideals because their SAE's!!!!!!" "Also, everytime I hear of a chapter closing, my heart breaks and my tears weep in sorrow for my unfortunate Phi Alpha SAE Brothers."

If you are going to be a moron and type out sputtering sentence fragments and one line rebuttals.........don't bother.

OKAY DOKY! Impressive!

I FEEL THE SAME WAY ! Hell, we all do!

But, SAE is not the only GLO on Earth!

You need to work with people and People from Other GLOS. Get the program?

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

OKAY DOKY! Impressive!

I FEEL THE SAME WAY ! Hell, we all do!

But, SAE is not the only GLO on Earth!

I'm actually trying to be civil here......because my head is about to explode.

Do you even read the garbage that you type? You trying to stay focused on a single topic is about as unlikely as Tito Jackson winning a Grammy.

I am well aware that SAE is not the "only GLO on earth". You asked a simple question about loyalty to your chapter/nationals/schools....so I answered it.

As for this:

You need to work with people and People from Other GLOS. Get the program?

I don't even know what this means. Actually, I'm just going to go ahead and say no, I don't. I have friends in many different fraternities.......do I feel the need to involve myself in their affairs?.....no. Why would I?.....and vice versa. Outside of having social relationships with other fraternities, I have no need to "work" with them on anything, whatever the hell that means.

[Tom Earp]

That is the point. U just do not get it!

[shinerbock]

Why should we work with other GLO's. I didn't join them all, I joined one that I liked. We're not one big greek world. I'm sorry, but my fraternal ties don't overcome stark differences in other areas. I didn't go through pledgeship with people from other chapters. They don't act, dress, or think the same way as me. The fact that they wear the same letters as me and believe in what our fraternity stands for is not sufficient for me to regard them like I do people in my chapter.

I know this is a shock to some people, but the fraternity (as an org, not the people in my chapter) is not overly high on my list of important things. I'd rank my faith, my family, my country, my school, and my friends ahead of it.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

That is the point. U just do not get it!

No, I don't get why you think "working with other GLOs" in an effort to be one gigantic ball of Greekdom is something that you think is so incredibly important. I don't. That really isn't something that I think is necessary or productive. Like Shinerbock said, I joined my fraternity because I wanted to be a part of it and because I liked it, not so I could make an effort to involve myself with a bunch of other fraternities.

So instead of you blurting out sentence fragments and telling me that I don't get it..........perhaps you can enlighten me on just what it is that you are talking about in reference to "working with other GLOs."

[Tom Earp]

Guess it just said it all by the two above Posters!

I really do feel sorry.

[macallan25]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Guess it just said it all by the two above Posters!

I really do feel sorry.

What the hell is it that you feel sorry for us about? That we are/were productive members of our fraternities at our own schools? Do you expect us to go on some nationwide tour of different fraternities in an effort to unify various Greek Organizations? That may be on your agenda, but it certainly isn't on mine. Graduating, working, having a good time with the fraternities and sororities AT MY OWN school, and figuring out life after undergrad are a few of the things that are high up on my list of priorities.

I'm not even kidding anymore.........what you say on here is some of the most ridiculous and idiotic crap I have ever read. I honestly don't think I have ever come accross someone that is so utterly incapable of rational thought as you. The fact that I have asked you at least three times to explain yourself without you even coming close to doing so is a mere testament to the level of dumb in which you have achieved.

Good day sir.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

In my opinion pledging to be loyal to your organization is a promise to be honored. I'm not going to like every Alpha Gam on the planet...heck I'm not even going to like every single Alpha Gam that goes through my chapter. But we all promised loyalty to Alpha Gamma Delta. Not just to our chapter, but to Alpha Gamma Delta and to each other...not everyone sees it the same way, but I wouldn't have joined and made promises just to have a social club...I take promises and loyalty seriously and I feel I have an obligation to my sisters, whether I like them or not, whether they are like me or not.

As for Greek unity, it's a valuable concept. It doesn't mean putting all your time and effort into someone else's organization, it just means cooperating, being nice, civil, and sometimes compromising for the greater good, which strengthens a school's Greek system and benefits everyone. It's really not that hard and it's very beneficial.