My Opinion on Alpha Phi Omega

[33girl]

Here's the thing. I am a member of Alpha Phi Omega and also a member of an NPC sorority. If APO was permitted to participate in Greek Week, what do I do? Where do I go? Not only that, many Greek Weeks have physical events that are fraternity vs fraternity and sorority vs sorority. Which side does APO fall on? Sure, it's a fraternity, but the fact of the matter is, many chapters have a majority of women.

When an APO chapter starts doing things like:
-being a participant (rather than a referee) in Greek Week
-having mixers with either a fraternity or sorority (depending on the gender makeup of the chapter)
-getting a house with letters on it
-joining either the campus IFC or Panhel (if not under duress of an administration that's too stupid to understand what APO is)

Then that to me is like that chapter is putting up an invisible sign saying "no IFC/Panhel/NPHC/NALFO Greeks allowed." Any chapter that does that is directly going against the founders (who as naraht pointed out, were mostly IFC Greeks).

If "Greek" means having a deeper bond than just being in a club and having to do more than just sign up to be a member...then yes, of course we are Greek. If "Greek" means doing those things I listed above...then NO, we are not Greek, and should not strive to be so. If you want to do those things above, join an IFC, NPC, NALFO or NPHC group.