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09-03-2013, 06:53 PM
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Differences between locals and clubs
I am thinking of rushing an organization at my school. They say that they are a coed local sorority, but my friends say they're just a club. What are the differences between a local and a club?
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09-03-2013, 08:24 PM
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Club: open membership.
Sorority: selective membership
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09-04-2013, 12:54 AM
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09-04-2013, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Flashlight
I am thinking of rushing an organization at my school. They say that they are a coed local sorority, but my friends say they're just a club. What are the differences between a local and a club?
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Real friends: People who will support you in your decisions.
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09-17-2013, 06:16 PM
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Coed? If they're really coed, shouldn't they be referring to themselves as a fraternity?
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09-17-2013, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PhiAlpha05
Coed? If they're really coed, shouldn't they be referring to themselves as a fraternity?
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In this free-wheeling and fancy free society we have today, if they want to refer to themselves as a sorority, who are you to question their stated gender preferences?
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09-18-2013, 03:36 PM
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Coed? If they're really coed, shouldn't they be referring to themselves as a fraternity?
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If they were founded as a sorority and then went co-ed, they might want to keep the name for tradition's sake.
I knew a local which went co-ed, but vehemently referred to all members as "brothers," and all Big-Little relationships as "Father/Son," regardless of the gender of the "Father" or "Son" or "Brother."
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09-28-2013, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by PhiAlpha05
Coed? If they're really coed, shouldn't they be referring to themselves as a fraternity?
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No, often times, it is simply a question of who the membership was when it was first founded. Gamma Sigma Sigma and Omega Phi Alpha for example are National Service Sororities and admit both men and women due to Title IX requirements (you can only be single gender if the group is purely social).
And under that logic, the 15 of the 26 members of the NPC that don't refer to themselves as sororities internally should change)
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Reason: added NPC as example...
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09-28-2013, 10:16 PM
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I have a nephew who is a member of a music sorority.
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09-29-2013, 01:35 PM
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I have a nephew who is a member of a music sorority.
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Mu Phi Epsilon or Delta Omicron? Or is it a different one?
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09-30-2013, 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by KDCat
I knew a local which went co-ed, but vehemently referred to all members as "brothers," and all Big-Little relationships as "Father/Son," regardless of the gender of the "Father" or "Son" or "Brother."
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There's a really good reason for this. I'll quote my Alpha Phi Omega brother on it.
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I have also been told there are co-ed music sororities in which all members (male & female) are addresses as sisters for much the same reason.
APO is an all-male fraternity that went co-ed and decided to continue to use the SAME term ("Brother") for all its members. We have also stated that the term is, for us, a non-gender term.
While some female Brothers may not like the term (because they are looking at it as a 'gender term'), many perfer to keep it as it means ALL members, male and female, are addressed with the same term and thus we are all on the same level. Using separate terms for male and female members would destroy that feeling.
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