Latino Greek Letter Organizations

[NuSigmaBeta]

I am a member of a Puertorican fraternity called Nu Sigma Beta NSB. We were founded in 1937 at the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Since then our Fraternity has expanded to include a chapter in almost every University in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and some US Universities. If you are interested in more information about our fraternity our site is www.nusigmabeta.org also if you would like some information about starting a Nu Sigma Beta chapter in your University you can email me at sotomizer@gmail.com. The Nu Sigma Beta fraternity is not a latino or Puertorican only type of fraternity it is open to all races and ethnic origins.

[TopSider]

Ahhhh, this was too good to pass up. But I wont start, homes. HAHAHAHAHAHA. What a joke

[TotallyWicked]

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]

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.

[ASTLuxiGX]

I am not a part of a multicultural org. on campus, however I am VP of
our Greek Senate on campus. We have many Latina/o orgs on campus...
My org. (Alpha Sigma Tau) gets along great with majority of them. Just to
throw it out there, I adore Mu Sigma Upsilon.

Sororities :

Mu Sigma Upsilon Latina Sorority, Inc.
Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Lambda Tau Omegs Sorority, Inc.
Omega Phi Chi Sorority, Inc.
(I know MSU and OPC are multicultural... I think LTO and LTO are Latina)

Fraternities :
Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity, Inc.
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Latino Fraternity, Inc.
Lambda Theta Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Hope this helped!!

[ASTLuxiGX]

Where are you an LUL? They were just brought onto our campus!
Love those boys!

[TotallyWicked]

LTO is Multicultural but their membership is predominantly Latina.

...i'm gonna need to visit Willy Patterson Soon to check them folks out

[SoEnchanting]

Originally Posted by TotallyWicked

LTO is Multicultural but their membership is predominantly Latina.

This statement is not entirely true. It varies by region.

[Ch2tf]

Originally Posted by SoEnchanting

This statement is not entirely true. It varies by region.

Are you saying the predominantly latina membership varies by region? I guess my impression of LTO was the same. In what regions is it different?

[SoEnchanting]

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. In FL, there are more black sorors than latina.

[LTA4]

Originally Posted by SoEnchanting

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. In FL, there are more black sorors than latina.

so overall, like nationally, are there more latina members or is it just about even? i mean, i'm not sure how many chapters you have in florida, so I'm wondering if that accomplishes the multiculturalism.

[TotallyWicked]

Originally Posted by ASTLuxiGX

Mu Sigma Upsilon Latina Sorority, Inc.

MSU is a Multicultural Sorority I believe.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by TotallyWicked

MSU is a Multicultural Sorority I believe.

It's definitely not Mu Sigma Upsilon Latin Sorority, Inc. But, they call themselves the first "multicultural minority sorority." Being that they are bound to a Latino fraternity, perhaps they are multicultural in the same way that Sigma Lambda Gamma is (a Latina-based multicultural sorority). It's understandable how it could be confusing.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

It's definitely not Mu Sigma Upsilon Latin Sorority, Inc. But, they call themselves the first "minority multicultural sorority." Being that they are bound to a Latino fraternity, perhaps they are multicultural in the same way that Sigma Lambda Gamma is (a Latina-based multicultural sorority). It's understandable how it could be confusing.

I don't think so.... the members I know just consider it a multicultural sorority. Their national website doesn't say "minority multicultural" -- but maybe other sources say that because other sororities before MSU were founded to be non-sectarian and therefore happened to be multicultural.

[Ch2tf]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I don't think so.... the members I know just consider it a multicultural sorority. Their national website doesn't say "minority multicultural" -- but maybe other sources say that because other sororities before MSU were founded to be non-sectarian and therefore happened to be multicultural.

Although, I've never heard of MSU being for only "minority" women, I think what PJ is refering to is:
http://www.musigmaupsilon.org/present/050604.html

(4th paragraph)