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Originally Posted by mccoyred
I want to know why its the NPHC and MGC folks that are at fault here? Maybe they don't want to work with you because you all are too self-righteous!
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Just to be clear in case anyone misinterpreted my post about the office space...as I said in the actual post, the NPHC exec board may not have ever set foot in our shared office space b/c they simply didn't have use for an office space. (I don't know how organized of a group they were as a council - perhaps each individual NPHC fraternity/sorority just went off and did their own thing, and the council itself wasn't very active.) Or, there could have been some past event that happened long, long ago which caused bad blood between the different councils that none of us were aware of...I'd hate to think that was why they didn't return calls or show up in their own office though.
Unfortunately, since their exec members never returned any phone calls, we never knew what the situation was. I'd like to think it was that the NPHC council just wasn't active - if they
needed the office space, I'd like to think that they would have used it. Their whole half of the room sat untouched all year - empty desks, empty walls. Even though they never set foot in the room and technically it would have been really convenient to use one of their desks, we never did. On the off chance that one of their officers did drop in one day, we didn't want them to think that we were taking over their fair share of the room. Our phone calls were made to try to be courteous office mates (ex - we're scheduling a meeting for our group and are trying to decide between X, Y, and Z dates/times, please let us know if any of those options would conflict with any plans you have). Not trying to force a joint meeting or some sort of group agenda, or anything like that.
I always thought it was unfortunate that they didn't use their office b/c it would have been a great opportunity to get to know their exec board. I'm not saying that any joint events would have necessarily come of it - certainly it would have been a positive thing if we would have happened to discover a way that we could have worked together on an event that both groups were interested in. However, even just being in a shared office on a regular basis and having the sort of casual conversations you might have in that situation would have helped both groups get to know each other.
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