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Originally Posted by DGTess
I had the same issue in the 70s at my campus. We - the Unified Fraternal Organization (we didn't have separate Panhellenic and IFC except on paper), the dean of students (who was black, but not a member of one of the chapters on our campus), and the student government representative - all tried to find a framework for the groups to work and socialize together, but got no response other than "not interested" from the three or four traditionally black organizations.
I would have liked to hear it had gotten better.
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I think things have gotten better.
However, I would like to point out that no single organization is under any obligation to have an event with any other organization. When you were an active member, did your sorority accept every invitation from every fraternity for a mixer, etc? We didn't always accept every invitation. Was it because we didn't like the fraternity or sorority asking us? Of course not. You can't always work everything out and do everything with everybody. No matter your letters or council, a group's primary obligation is to their own members and their own mission, however those things may be defined. Individuals can be (and are) friends on their own time across organization lines and council lines.
When BG's fraternity invited Alpha and Kappa to have parties, Alpha and Kappa were under no obligation to do so nor were they under any obligation to explain why they couldn't or wouldn't. Just in the same way if my KKG chapter turned down an invitation from ABC or XYZ fraternity when I was in college. Unless the Alphas and Kappas came straight out and said "we're not hanging with you crackers," I wouldn't have assumed it was a race thing.
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