GC Rules of Thumb

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Heather17

NO...it's called NALFO. A multicultural greek council is something on a local campus, not a national organization.

And this would be an example of what we're talking about. If you don't know for sure....you probably shouldn't post. And if you do, you should expect that people are going to call you out on inaccuracies (sometimes sarcastically).

And this, Alanis Morrisette, is irony.

NALFO is the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations. The umbrella organization for multicultral organizations (though not all multicultral GLOs are members) is indeed the National Multicultural Greek Council.

[LPIDelta]

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Heather17

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by Heather17

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

But NALFO isn't a council for multicultural orgs, it's a council for the Latino/a orgs. Not the same thing. So it really doesn't matter which someone thinks of first, only one of the two is a multicultural council ...

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Heather17

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

Can't take the sarcasm you predicted?

As you note, the poster said "Multicultural Greek Council." It's not that far of a stretch to "National Multicultural Greek Council." Latino is a completely different direction though.

The real GC Rule of Thumb here is make yourself clear and make clear what you are responding to. Here's the exchange:

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

1) NPC, NPHC, IFC, and local orgs are all different (and I think I am missing a 4th council).

Originally Posted by notmanhattan

Multicultural Greek Council

Originally Posted by Heather17

NO...it's called NALFO. A multicultural greek council is something on a local campus, not a national organization.

Apparently, you were really responding to DeltaBetaBaby's "and I think I am missing a 4th council," but since you just quoted notmanhattan's "Multicultural Greek Council," it looked like you were saying "No, it's not called the Multicultural Greek Council, because there is no such organization on a national level. The national organization is called NALFO." It read like you were the one mixing up NMGC and NALFO.

And sorry, but "the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL" is what most people would call a lame distinction without a difference.

Sorry, but I just love pissing matches too much, and I don't like to loose them.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Heather17

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

You started the pissing match when you got pissy over nothing.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Heather17

I am not going to get into a pissing match--the poster said Multicultural Greek Council, not NATIONAL. And when we're talking about the big four councils, I think many would think of NALFO before NMGC.

There's not a 4th big council. There are three major councils and then there are some of what would definitely be comparably minor councils, at least in terms of size/membership.

That they celebrate a different culture, thus are major is a bunch of hippie talk as far as I'm concerned

[preciousjeni]

My first thought when reading all of your comments is that it's not the people who would take time to read this thread that are the problem. It's the *others*...

And, since it's been brought up...

Originally Posted by IAmMysticCat

NALFO is the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations. The umbrella organization for multicultral organizations (though not all multicultral GLOs are members) is indeed the National Multicultural Greek Council.

I would hesitate to place the NMGC at the level of NPHC/NPC/IFC/NALFO not only because the council is still growing but also because it isn't the same type of organization. Where the other councils/conferences meet in great part to develop agreements among the member organizations for the betterment (and protection) of the whole, the NMGC appears to act more like a chamber of commerce, bringing together organizations to share information with a future goal to work together to promote awareness of multiculturalism. But, the definition of multiculturalism seems to be rather fluid as the NMGC represents both cultural-based (Latina for example) and multicultural-based orgs. I would be interested to see an umbrella org for "historically multicultural" orgs.

That's enough of that tangent.

[AKA_Monet]

Non-greeks or interests:

It is lame of you to start topics that got locked up in other GC forums. If they are stupid in one forum, they are probably stupid in other forums.

If you fail to receive answers from one place, you will probably fail to receive answers in another location...

Turning around to ask another question differently that is not insightful, it is lazy...