NALFO Press Releases

[Little Dragon]

My last intervention as this is not an ΣΛΒ thread, but a NALFO one. Email me for further comments if you need to. I´m not telling anybody to shut up either. It is just that we are going off point on this thread.

I agree with you LatinaAlumna. I really apologize for any confusion. If some brothers are doing this (as it seems they are), we have a problem "in house" and will have to deal with it. I actually didn´t mean to say "ask nationals" but a quick look at our website would also work.

ΣΛΒ is not a multicultural fraternity nor it claims to be (by "it" I mean the organization). From day one, ΣΛΒ has been and continues to be a Latin-based fraternity. Yet also, from day one, as out of the 18 founders one was Asian and one was African, ΣΛΒ has had a multicultural membership. This may be the cause of the confusion. Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc., is a Latin-based social fraternity with a multicultural membership. We are proud of both, the Latin-based and the multicultural membership. From the union of both, comes the "International" in our official name, as our membership has been from day one not only multicultural, but International in scope, as our founders were not only Latinos by heritage but also Latin Americans by Nationality.

Lastly, the reason of our leaving NALFO, the press release stated one, "limiting growth," as TotallyWicked has already indicated, there are others. My first intervention was only to clarify that it cannot be reduced to "multiculturalism," as that, doesn´t matter how many confused brothers we may have, has never been one of the reasons. Hope it is clear and nobody gets disrespected by these words.