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Originally posted by Erik P Conard
I am not saying outfits cannot use greek letters and spread charters all over inner-cities. But please do not call them collegiate...women's groups like Beta Sigma Phi and Epsilon
Sigma Alpha have invaded college campuses, too. And the once boy-scout fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, was tried join the
ranks of the traditional IFCs in some locations. The U of Mich
has long been home to many professional fraternities who do
operate, in some cases, as social ones.
If we are hell-bent on destroying collegiate identities, why don't
we just confer the PhD at birth and get on with living?
But, please, please, please don't piss on my leg and tell me it is raining. Anybody can take any name they want to.
But they are a helleva far cry from SAE, Beta, TKE, or Theta,
Pi Phi or DZ--all of whom are open to all today.
You all damned well know what I mean.
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Erik,
As far as A Phi O chapters (which I am also a member of, incidentally) are trying to join IFCs I would like to know the school and chapter...as it is expressly stated that APO chapters are NOT to join any conferences such as IFC or NPC. If it's a smaller college (Silver Turtle's is the best example I know of) with a myriad of different types of Greek orgs that are not "traditional" it is permissible.
Not only that I guess that all the women who joined ASA in its first 50 years of existence weren't "real" sorority women since we were a social-educational group.
Finally, maybe women are joining groups like Beta and ESA because they don't have any patience with some of the ridiculous rules imposed by NPC groups that treat young adult women like junior high children.
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