How can an APO Chapter strive in a Social Greek World?

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Originally posted by qteasied
Sorry, I needed to bump this because I have the same problem at my school.

I'm in an APO interest group at my school, and also colonizing a multicultural sorority here at the same time. My friend in a local at a different school wants to tell me that APO's just a club of girls who call themselves "brothers," at her school but not a fraternity. Another girl in my sorority interest group here doesn't believe it's a fraternity because I wouldn't be allowed to pledge the sorority if I was in a fraternity as well.

I hate that BS. I've read some posts by other GCers who say that orgs that aren't NPC/NIC are "fake." Who are they to dismiss the history and traditions of other GLOS if they don't know what the hell they are talking about? To me, if it's a GLO, you pledge, you have brothers--it's obvious! Social Greeks believe that their orgs are the only ones that can be "real." F*** that!

*Danielle*

What you have here is a combination of arrogance and ignorance. There have been threads in the general forum area on this topic.

I find the attitude by many social greeks that 'social GLO' are the only 'true' GLO as the height of arrogance. Social GLO are but one aspect of GLOs. And I feel from a historic stand point, the social GLOs grew out of the original GLOs. The original GLOs were mainly supper discussion groups. Those in honorary, professional, and other GLOs are just as much greek as the socials.

I find the attitude by many social greeks that being in a social GLO prevents them from joining ANY other GLO as fairly ignorant. The restriction is only on being in ONE social GLO or ONE type of professional (ie one business GLO, etc). Our Founders were mainly members of social GLOs and didn't want to establish a new GLO that would affect their membership.

Tied with this is the attitude by some social greeks that you somehow can't be involved in more then one organization to be silly. You join socials for what they give you. You join professionals for what they give you. You join APO for similiar reasons. No GLO can provide it all. By being involved with multiple organizations, you are a more well-rounded individual. My father was a member of a social, and 2 professionals (business & law). As an adult he's a member of Elks, Rotary, a sailing/yacht club, a golf club, and probably a few others I'm not aware of. To me that's normal. To join only a social and refuse to join any other organization while in college seems silly and foolish.