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05-14-2008, 11:32 AM
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Why did Miami of Ohio need Beta Theta Pi when it already had "eastern" fraternities, or Sigma Chi or Phi Delta Theta when it had Beta?
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I think Sigma Chi is a fairly poor example. It wasn't started because there wasn't anything else there they wanted to join, it was started because the founders felt that they couldn't with good conscience remain associated with DKE.
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05-14-2008, 12:55 PM
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I think Sigma Chi is a fairly poor example. It wasn't started because there wasn't anything else there they wanted to join, it was started because the founders felt that they couldn't with good conscience remain associated with DKE.
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With all due respect, this reason seems to support MysticCat's point. The Founders "started" Sigma Chi Fraternity because as far as they were concerned, a certain niche or need was not being met at Miami.
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05-14-2008, 01:09 PM
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With all due respect, this reason seems to support MysticCat's point. The Founders "started" Sigma Chi Fraternity because as far as they were concerned, a certain niche or need was not being met at Miami.
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Exactly. Though perhaps I could have been a little more precise and asked why start Sigma Chi when DKE (rather than just Beta) was already on campus.
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05-14-2008, 02:40 PM
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Today, there are many reasons that locals are started even back in the olden days.
It mostly was the same thing, they didn't feel right for the individuals so they looked to something else.
Today there are Asian, Latino, and Multi-Cultured being started becauswe they want to fit in with as was well said, niche.
That always made me think that the existing GLOs did not do enough to bring them in or maybe they felt left out?
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05-14-2008, 02:46 PM
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With all due respect, this reason seems to support MysticCat's point. The Founders "started" Sigma Chi Fraternity because as far as they were concerned, a certain niche or need was not being met at Miami.
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The niche was being met. The founders were originally initiated DKEs (except for one). Then they decided that they couldn't condone the way DKE was acting anymore, so they went out on their own.
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05-14-2008, 02:49 PM
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The niche was being met. The founders were originally initiated DKEs (except for one). Then they decided that they couldn't condone the way DKE was acting anymore, so they went out on their own.
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Excellent point!
DKE one of the Union Triad to this day are not very active in expansion.
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