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Old 06-17-2008, 07:07 PM
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Yeah, I think it's clear that the OP wants a social fraternity experience if it's available, but he also got some tips about additional options if it's not.

I'm not sure why you guys are riding the social fraternity horse so hard.
At least in my experience I don't think I would be remotely happy with being in a service fraternity instead of a social fraternity, and I would imagine that the flipside would be true as well.

What they offer is completely different and the people they draw will generally not be interchangable with each other. In my view to suggest that they are, would be comparable (on a much lower level obviously) to someone saying "I'd like to one day work for the NAACP" and getting the response of "Well if that doesn't work out for you, you should consider getting involved with the Klan."

Yeah the two groups are comparable, but only in as much as they're both clubs and they both have a purpose that they're united around.

(And the NAACP/Klan thing is purposely exaggerated for the point of being funny while still kind of sort of making a point, thought I should clarify that since the sense of humor in here is kind of lacking).
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Old 06-17-2008, 07:19 PM
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At least in my experience I don't think I would be remotely happy with being in a service fraternity instead of a social fraternity, and I would imagine that the flipside would be true as well.

What they offer is completely different and the people they draw will generally not be interchangable with each other. In my view to suggest that they are, would be comparable (on a much lower level obviously) to someone saying "I'd like to one day work for the NAACP" and getting the response of "Well if that doesn't work out for you, you should consider getting involved with the Klan."

Yeah the two groups are comparable, but only in as much as they're both clubs and they both have a purpose that they're united around.

(And the NAACP/Klan thing is purposely exaggerated for the point of being funny while still kind of sort of making a point, thought I should clarify that since the sense of humor in here is kind of lacking).
See the analogy is more like:

Hey, I'd like to be a baseball player. I really love the sport of baseball. I think it would be really cool to play on the college team, but I don't know that I can devote myself to it completely and I don't know if the skills that I'm used to using line up with what the kids are doing these days.

And someone saying, well why don't you work with our community program for youth baseball. You can either volunteer and do good in the community working with kids' teams and doing service or you can work in our office with our corporate sponsors making connections that you can use in your career later.

Nobody really thinks it's a one to one substitution, just that there's value in the second options too.
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Old 06-17-2008, 07:45 PM
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See the analogy is more like:

Hey, I'd like to be a baseball player. I really love the sport of baseball. I think it would be really cool to play on the college team, but I don't know that I can devote myself to it completely and I don't know if the skills that I'm used to using line up with what the kids are doing these days.

And someone saying, well why don't you work with our community program for youth baseball. You can either volunteer and do good in the community working with kids' teams and doing service or you can work in our office with our corporate sponsors making connections that you can use in your career later.

Nobody really thinks it's a one to one substitution, just that there's value in the second options too.
More like I'd like to play in the majors, but my skills aren't good enough, so I'll play on the company softball team.
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