Why So Many Greek Letter Orgs?

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by PANTHERTEKE

You would think that the Latin fraternties/sororities- like the Lambdas, LTA, LUL, SLG, etc- would be huge at such a school, but actually that's not the case.

One thing to remember here is that these organizations tend to be a lot smaller than NPC/IFC orgs by design. The size of a particular chapter doesn't necessarily indicate the actual interest on that campus. For instance, we have chapters that consistently have a pool of 50+ interests, but we can afford to be uber-selective and end up with lines of 6-10.

You also have to consider that the internal culture of Latin/Asian/Multicultural orgs is different from that of NPC/IFC or even NPHC. You can't get the multicultural Greek experience in an NPC/IFC group.

[33girl]

I don't think that PhiMu_Gator is referring to the 26 NPCs. Rather, I think she means the people that preciousjeni was addressing in this thread - those with rampant "founder-itis." (And I am rolling at the "what not to do.")

Oh, and also, "all the sororities/fraternities rejected me" is not a good reason to start a new one. GLOs have to have desirable members to compete with the other groups on campus. It's one thing to start a group when you've been through rush and didn't like the materialism, or the hazing, or simply that there were only 2 groups to pick from and you want another choice. It's another to make a whole group full of rejects.

[preciousjeni]

An alert came through on e-mail that BabyPiNK_FL had made a comment. I guess she deleted it. But, for the record, I didn't take the comments by PANTHERTEKE as an insult nor am I "throwing things." That was a crazy comment, so I'm glad it was deleted.