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Old 12-21-2009, 08:35 PM
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I'm currently in a social sorority and very interested in rushing APO once spring semeser starts up, especially since my term of being an officer is done. Do other people ever do both? Does it work out? The APO chapter at my school is competitive, out of about 60 or 70 rushees only 20 something got bids. Would already being in a social sorority hurt my chances of getting a bid? How do you see APO as being different from a social fraternity or sorority?
Yes, people do join APO and a social GLO. Most of our Founders were members of social GLO.

Some join APO after joining a social. Some join a social after joining APO.

APO is NOT a social. There are differences. Our Founders (please remember, they were mainly members of socials and understood them) felt that APO would fill a different need then socials: to do service and be better citizens and leaders by this service.

Many of the Brothers who are in both APO & a social do so because each fills different needs. No different then being members of different clubs to fill different needs for yourself. For instance, I joined Toastmasters to be a better speaker/presenter, I joined a parliamentarian club to learn more about parliamentary procedure. I joined these because they give me something that my other organizations did, and also because I joined them I can bring those skills into my other organizations (including APO). I've never understood the mindset of some social GLOers to can't seem to grasp the idea of being in several organizations at once. You do it because they met different needs.
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Old 12-21-2009, 10:53 PM
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Yes, people do join APO and a social GLO. Most of our Founders were members of social GLO.
The 14 founders in 1925 were 8 Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Gamma chapter) brothers, 5 Krescents (a local fraternity that nationally affiliated with Kappa Delta Rho in 1928 and became Rho chapter of KDR) and one Independent.

Lafayette has a pretty complete Fraternity/Sorority history at http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~library/sp...eeks/home.html
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