WHATS UP WITH AUXILIARY GROUPS?

I did it all with ONE letter on my chest.


So are you saying that there is something wrong with those of us who wear THREE letters on our chests? If not, then why did you end your post with this statement?

[Q Phi Xi Ace]

Omega Phi Xi Fraternity High School Band Fraternity Inc. has started the Q Phi Swetties for dance team members, cheerleadres, poms,majorettes,flags good at there craft and bad chicks in high school and we doing good as a frat and they doing real good getting a lot of gurls greek lettered up bad chicks at that help us promote projects and our endeavors and they throw parties great enviroment and we sistas as well Delta Phi Xi Band Sorority

[KSUViolet06]

Try reading the thread?

[prettygyrl]

To get to your site Church lady do I just go to Black Planet.com? Is it under the name of church lady? I was just wondering about the auxiliary groups. i hope you did not take my question negatively. i just never really knew much about them.

[Wynna]

Why is there someone out there who must always see the negative in someone's statement? She was simply defending her role in an auxiliary group. She realized that many people on this board may not know all that goes along with being a member of an auxiliary group (many people obviously have the wrong impression of members of these groups). She wanted to inform everyone that her group was involved in volunteer and community service activities as well, so we should not think negatively about her organization.

Sorry, Church Lady for responding on this topic, but I see so much of this on this board and I had to say something.

Originally posted by Uh-huh:
I did it all with ONE letter on my chest.


So are you saying that there is something wrong with those of us who wear THREE letters on our chests? If not, then why did you end your post with this statement?

[blu_theatrics]

Church lady, I ama amember of Black planet and would like to stop by your page, what is your handle on Blackplanet.

Pretty girl i ddon't know if you are a member or not of Blackplanet, but I think that if you are not, you would really enjoy it. I have seen many of your posts and though we do disagree sometimes, We agree a lot of times too. On BlackPlanet there are an abundance of BGLO members and there are also very interesting message boards there too. If you would like to join just go to http://www.blackplanet.com

im just a little confused about the comment made by selacious in her/his reply that said pledging was "banned" in 1990... what exactly are you talking about because i have never heard of such a ban. also, blog's are not the only ones that had auxiliary groups.... i know for a fact that the sigma chi's on my campus had a group in the 1980s that was called the little sisters of sigma chi that actually pledged and had pledging activities in order to get in. some of the founding sisters of my chapter were once in this group.

i meant bglo not blog in my last reply... sorry

[ZetaAce]

Theta Phi Alpha- She is only refferring to the NPHC groups. They were officially banned back in 1990. (I don't know if/when they were banned in the other groups.)

ZetaAce

[Monique]

Hey . i just want to respond a lil bit. Even though I am MePhiMe, I was never able to understand why women just didn't pledge if they wanted to be apart of something? On blackplanet the Kappa sweethearts have soooo many sites on there its funny. And they be dead serious. They have there line name, line sistas, chapter and they wear nalia. whats the point? I have yet to find out. If u wanted to become there sister why not join the sorority ..Aka/Alpha,Delta/Omega etc..I just don't get it.Can someone help me to understand..
ps My name on bp is MsC-Dlite so all blackplanet users hit me up and i'll do the same.

[AlphaChiGirl]

<<Just because we chose to join an auxillary organization dosen't make us any less of strong, beautiful, black women.>>
--I agree with this! There seems to be so much disrespect for auxilary organizations, without the realization that in many cases, they do serve an actual purpose. For example, what about a woman, who didn't go to college, but has a husband who's in a fraternity, and she and other women in her situation want to help out with community service projects on behalf of their husbands' fraternities? I think in cases such as these, there's nothing wrong with auxilary organizations. There's no reason to disrespect someone based on circumstances. Oh, and some women have perfectly viable reasons for not joining a sorority...the reasons don't have to be "bad".

[This message has been edited by AlphaChiGirl (edited July 03, 2000).]

[ZetaAce]

Originally posted by Monique:
If u wanted to become there sister why not join the sorority ..Aka/Alpha,Delta/Omega etc..I just don't get it.Can someone help me to understand..

Just my opinion here-

A woman should never, ever join an organization because she wants to be the 'soror' of a male frat. She should join a sorority based on the merits of the organization not so she can 'be down with' the frat. If a woman told me that she wanted to be a Zeta because she want to be the Sigma's soror, you better believe she is getting a no vote from me!

ZetaAce

[Shelacious]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AlphaChiGirl:
There seems to be so much disrespect for auxilary organizations, without the realization that in many cases, they do serve an actual purpose. For example, what about a woman, who didn't go to college, but has a husband who's in a fraternity, and she and other women in her situation want to help out with community service projects on behalf of their husbands' fraternities?

((smile)). It certainly was not my intent to sound like I was disrespecting auxliaries. I got the impression the question was about collegiate auxiliaries within the NPHC, which are now illegal, and have been since 1990 in that particular form. And in reviewing the thread, I didn't see anyone actually disrespect these groups or the women who've joined (since all sororities have former auxilary members within them, it would be a bit hypocrtical to condem the women who've joined auxilaries, eh)? All I've seen are folks' personal opinions about the groups as a whole today. In fact, this thread was tame compared to many thread's I've seen on this topic in the past!

As I'd pointed out, there ARE legally sanctioned auxilaries within Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, and I'm sure most other GLOs, that help spouses and others become involved in the service of said organziation. Zeta's adult auxilaries are Zeta Amicae and Zeta Male Network. It sounds like the Women of Omega Social Service Organziation is another. This, though is a different issue than if a woman joined "Que Pearls" or a man "Zeta Knights" in Y2K, I think, thus my opinion on the topic. Hope this clarifies my post.

[blu_theatrics]

Originally posted by AlphaChiGirl:
For example, what about a woman, who didn't go to college, but has a husband who's in a fraternity, and she and other women in her situation want to help out with community service projects on behalf of their husbands' fraternities? I think in cases such as these, there's nothing wrong with auxilary organizations.

I'm uneducated here, so someone help me out?

Do you have to be a college student to be in an auxillary group? I thought you did, but maybe I'm wrong.

Help?

[DELTABRAT]

blu_theatrics:

I think the original post was indeed speaking about college auxilliary groups. Like sorority and fraternity affiliated ones (banned) and you usually do have to be in college. Someone added a post about other types of auxilliary groups that are actually sanctioned. Her/his example was about a woman who doesn't go to coolege but has a husband in a frat and joins the auxilliary of that group. That's different.

I have heard of such groups and they do serve a great purpose (not that the college affiliated ones don't). I have always been too headstrong to join a group based on the affiliation of my significant other. For example, there is a woman who is trying to start a Western chapter of the "Wives of Morehouse Men Auxilliary" (not the actual name). Then again her husband is the President of this regions Morehoue Alumni Association so maybe she feels like she needs to do that. But why? If they raise funds, that's one thing. But they intend to hold meetings when the husbands do, in a different room of the house. Why? I just can't see me doing that. My boyfriend said that if I were to become the wife of a Morehouse man I would be "dying" to join the "club." I looked at him like he was crazy

I wonder what he meant by that anyways...hmmm