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Old 11-14-2005, 04:39 PM
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Sorry, that was bad wording on my part ... more majority male than APO. Like with APO, at least from my experience and understanding, things seem to be pretty even, whereas with the sororities, they are almost entirely female. My question is whether there are any predominantly male service fraternities now that APO is not?
There are no other service fraternities; however, there are one or two chapters of APO that have chosen not to go co-ed. For example, the APO chapter at Auburn is all-male...but that's okay, because OPA has a chapter there too.
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Old 11-14-2005, 04:44 PM
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What chapter is that, just out of curiousity?
Psi Chapter in Corpus Christi. They pledged a guy this semester; I haven't heard any updates on him though, I've just seen pictures.

Iota Chapter (when it still existed) pledged a male as well, although I don't know if he was ever initiated.
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Old 11-14-2005, 04:48 PM
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There are no other service fraternities; however, there are one or two chapters of APO that have chosen not to go co-ed. For example, the APO chapter at Auburn is all-male...but that's okay, because OPA has a chapter there too.
Clemson's chapter is also all-male. I believe they have a chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma, though.
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Old 11-14-2005, 04:52 PM
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Psi Chapter in Corpus Christi. They pledged a guy this semester; I haven't heard any updates on him though, I've just seen pictures.

Iota Chapter (when it still existed) pledged a male as well, although I don't know if he was ever initiated.
It should probably also be mentioned that four of the people in our new Georgia Southern colony are male...
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Old 11-14-2005, 04:57 PM
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There are no other service fraternities; however, there are one or two chapters of APO that have chosen not to go co-ed. For example, the APO chapter at Auburn is all-male...but that's okay, because OPA has a chapter there too.
There are several APO chapters that decided to remain all-male. At last count, there were about a dozen or so (one is at an all-male school). However, recent decisions will soon change that.
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Old 11-14-2005, 05:02 PM
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However, recent decisions will soon change that.
..."recent decisions?" (I'm curious.)
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Old 11-14-2005, 05:09 PM
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..."recent decisions?" (I'm curious.)
Due to issues of having all-male chapters within a co-ed organization (some groups don't want to work with us because of it, there are also apparently legal issues as well), APO's National Board has decided that all chapters must be open to all students at their schools. This has been announced within the Fraternity.
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Old 11-14-2005, 06:03 PM
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Clemson's chapter is also all-male. I believe they have a chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma, though.
I also think they have an ESA chapter too...

I know that FAMU's APO chapter is still all male (I think)
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Old 11-14-2005, 06:04 PM
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It should probably also be mentioned that four of the people in our new Georgia Southern colony are male...
In APO or OPA?
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Old 11-14-2005, 06:41 PM
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In APO or OPA?
OPA. All four males have been assigned alumnae bigs. All of the girls have bigs in Chi or Nu chapters.

It should be noted that not only does Southern have an APO chapter, but they also have a GSS...which is surprising. I mean, it's possible that GSS attracts a different crowd than a brand-new OPA colony, but...guys in OPA when there's an APO chapter handy?

It's my understanding that at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, there is no APO, so I can understand the guy pledge there...hmm...

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with males in OPA, it's just a new concept for me, coming from a school where there's both a co-ed APO chapter and an OPA chapter.


(Ha ha, talk about derailing a topic...)
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Old 11-14-2005, 06:58 PM
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OPA. All four males have been assigned alumnae bigs. All of the girls have bigs in Chi or Nu chapters.

It should be noted that not only does Southern have an APO chapter, but they also have a GSS...which is surprising. I mean, it's possible that GSS attracts a different crowd than a brand-new OPA colony, but...guys in OPA when there's an APO chapter handy?

It's my understanding that at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, there is no APO, so I can understand the guy pledge there...hmm...

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with males in OPA, it's just a new concept for me, coming from a school where there's both a co-ed APO chapter and an OPA chapter.


(Ha ha, talk about derailing a topic...)
Awwww, my RL little brother at GSU could one day be my OPA sister Wonder if he'd go for it?
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Old 11-14-2005, 10:37 PM
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Interesting...

I'll PM both of ya'll...
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Old 11-15-2005, 10:39 AM
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As a Gamma Sig (and a District Director), I find this convo interesting too.

To clear it up, we do have a Gamma Sig Chapter (Epsilon Beta) at Clemson. The APO chapter (Gamma Lambda) is all-male.

We also have Gamma Sig at Georgia Southern (Eta Alpha). They colonized in 2003 and chartered in 2005. I too think it'll be interesting to see how it'll all play out with OPA establishing themselves there as well--and that's all I'm gonna say on that.

I only know of one other school like Georgia Southern and that's Western Kentucky...there's both GSS and OPA there, and they do attract different members.
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Old 11-15-2005, 12:32 PM
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I only know of one other school like Georgia Southern and that's Western Kentucky...there's both GSS and OPA there, and they do attract different members.
How large is your GSS chapter at WKU? Our chapter there is ~80 sisters strong (our largest chapter by far). I was wondering how well the two co-exist on the same campus.
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Old 11-15-2005, 12:44 PM
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There are several APO chapters that decided to remain all-male. At last count, there were about a dozen or so (one is at an all-male school). However, recent decisions will soon change that.
I wouldn't be too sure about that.

Based on the way how those decisions came about and the methods used to do so, the power for that decision to stick is debatable (and reversible) at best and permanently dividing the org at worst.
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