Your thoughts: Doing events with other fraternities/sororities?

[Sen's Revenge]

I would like to see APO chapters participate in as many active service events as possible, even if they are sponsored by a social fraternity or sorority, including awareness booths/tabling.

That's pretty much all I would like to see.

I would like to say, though, that APO chapters need to be very careful about perpetuating stereotypes and stigmas about social Greeks. Exposure is very important in fighting stereotypes so collaboration is important.

[anonymouse17]

Originally Posted by Sen's Revenge

I would like to see APO chapters participate in as many active service events as possible, even if they are sponsored by a social fraternity or sorority, including awareness booths/tabling.

That's pretty much all I would like to see.

I would like to say, though, that APO chapters need to be very careful about perpetuating stereotypes and stigmas about social Greeks. Exposure is very important in fighting stereotypes so collaboration is important.

We can be social without being a social fraternity.

Feels like a great service to the campus and community anyhow since we are working together with other students in the area. Not really doing any service when you outright refuse to work with others because of a stereotype.

I guess one way to address it would be to say, there are goods and bads in every person, group, or organization. You don't have to be like others to do service with them. They have their principles and we have ours. We do things differently from them. They have their own opinions of us as we have of them. No two people are the same, nobody is perfect. Getting to know the other organization is a must before talking about them. They can be wonderful people, we're just perpetuating stereotypes onto them and its a bad thing. Poor character, one might say.

[33girl]

We always did campus bloodmobile w/ Alpha Sigma Tau. We were a smaller chapter and this event took a LOT of hands (in the middle of a school day) so it worked fine.

Like Sen, things of this nature are all I would like to see. The sorority that asked you to form a team for their event like the social fraternities was clueless at best and inappropriate/had ulterior motives at worst. APO's role in these sorts of things should be as judges or refs - period.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Like Sen, things of this nature are all I would like to see. The sorority that asked you to form a team for their event like the social fraternities was clueless at best and inappropriate/had ulterior motives at worst. APO's role in these sorts of things should be as judges or refs - period.

For sports events it can really vary. If they are also inviting a team from Pi Delta Phi (French Language Honorary), then they probably just worked from a mailing list and don't have a clue who APO is (or what we are). If APO is the *only* non-social, then things may be uncomfortable in that there is the possibility of someone being eligible for two teams that they don't. OTOH, there is a place in the middle. If the invitees include other groups that have a pledging process and can overlap in membership with the socials (for example KKPsi and/or TBS or some of the other members of the National Interfraternity Music Council) then it indicates they know what they are doing. I've even seen situations where the teams were one all male, one all female and one co-ed group. (So this year we are on the Theta Chi/Kappa Kappa Gamma/Alpha Phi Omega team) (or for a large APO chapter, most teams are one fraternity and one sorority, but APO stands alone)...