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Originally Posted by Jeremy121588
First off if you want to go do community service go join APO if you want to go for grades join PSP, if you want a mix of everything while still having a social life, join a SOCIAL fraternity. Social fraternities and sororities were founded on friendship and nothing more. Friends got together and wanted to make a bond that would never crumble.
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I would disagree with this being the original purpose of social GLO.
If you look at the history of GLO, they got going with Phi Beta Kappa, which was founded as a secret dinner discussion club. The reason for these groups was not to have a social life, but to create a forum in which the members could come together to discuss matters of importance, which was not allowed to them in the colleges of the day (hence the need for secrecy, etc). Much of their secrecy were influenced by the masons (secret signs, handclaps, rituals, etc).
Then GLOs evolved to being a place for its members to come together and have meals. Colleges didn't provide the dinning halls and dorms halls we are used to today, so students started to create self-perpetuating clubs to provide a dinning location (something that still exists on some campuses), and later this evolved into having a house for members to live in and have meals (the full social GLO).
So friendship as the purpose of GLO actually came later.
The other types of GLO (professional, honor, service), were spinoffs from the socials, focusing on those areas (networking for those in a profession, honoring outstanding students in that 'profession', doing service), but still using the concepts of fraternalism (bonds of brotherhood, rituals, etc).
GLO have been around for over 200 years, but the social GLO as most of us know of, is a more recent creation.
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