Dual/triple/more memberships

Miriverite · #1 07-26-2010, 04:35 PM

Before anyone asks, no, this is not a thread about whether I can pledge two NPC's and an NHPC sorority.

Rather, I'm curious as to how many of you hold dual (or more) memberships in GLOs. How do you split your time between the two? Do you feel more loyal to one over the other? And, of course, I am interested in seeing who has the most memberships! (I faintly recall someone saying that they knew a friend in four GLOs.. anyone able to top that?)

To start off, I'm triple-membership in Alpha Chi Omega (social sorority), Alpha Kappa Psi (professional business fraternity), and Beta Sigma Phi (community-based sorority). I feel as if each offers me support in an area of life - AXO in academics and university; AKPsi in career; and BSP in friendship and lifestyle. However, I'd have to say that I'm closest to AKPsi, since I was a founder of the colony at my university, and some of my best friends come from it =)

ree-Xi · #2 07-26-2010, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Miriverite

Before anyone asks, no, this is not a thread about whether I can pledge two NPC's and an NHPC sorority.

Rather, I'm curious as to how many of you hold dual (or more) memberships in GLOs. How do you split your time between the two? Do you feel more loyal to one over the other? And, of course, I am interested in seeing who has the most memberships! (I faintly recall someone saying that they knew a friend in four GLOs.. anyone able to top that?)

To start off, I'm triple-membership in Alpha Chi Omega (social sorority), Alpha Kappa Psi (professional business fraternity), and Beta Sigma Phi (community-based sorority). I feel as if each offers me support in an area of life - AXO in academics and university; AKPsi in career; and BSP in friendship and lifestyle. However, I'd have to say that I'm closest to AKPsi, since I was a founder of the colony at my university, and some of my best friends come from it =)

Look at the links below, at the bottom of the page to find more discussions. There are quite a number of people who hold more than one membership.

KSUViolet06 · #3 07-26-2010, 05:05 PM

I am a member of 2 orgs.

I can honestly say that I have close friends in both. I joined my service org freshman year so several of those friendships go back further than my friendships in Sigma. On the other hand, I lived with girls from Sigma so I am closer to some of them.

In college, I tended to split my time based on the importance of events. For example: if one org had sisterhood, and another was holding elections, elections were obviously more important. Or if my sorority had Initiation, I obviously couldn't skip that to go to service org karaoke.

As far as being an alumna, I'm more active in Sigma right now. Eventually I'd like to be active in both though.

BabyPiNK_FL · #4 07-26-2010, 06:11 PM

I am a member of Phi Mu, Sigma Tau Delta (English), Order of Omega (Greek), Rho Lambda (Sorority) , Phi Alpha Delta (Law) (@ the law school level-not undergrad), and I have a pin for Panhellenic.

dgdramadawg · #5 07-26-2010, 06:54 PM

In college, I was involved in Delta Gamma, Sigma Tau Delta (English), Alpha Psi Omega (Theatre), Kappa Delta Epsilon (Education), and Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership). Since my other Greek-letter orgs were academic, they really didn't offer as much in the way of events as DG did. STD, APO, and KDE were great forums in which to find people who specifically studied the same things I did, and ODK was great because it included leaders from lots of other campus groups... I just never really considered them on the same level as my commitment to DG since they didn't really require as much time from me.

As an alum, the only one of these with which I have any involvement is DG. But the others send me newsletters... which is nice.

ThetaPrincess24 · #6 07-26-2010, 07:13 PM

I am a member of three orgs:

Kappa Alpha Theta
Alpha Kappa Psi
Beta Sigma Phi

Miriverite · #7 07-28-2010, 10:17 AM

It's impressive that your schools had so many Greek organizations available to the students =) I wish mine would bring more focus towards professional and honour GLO's, but it seems that the thriving side of Greek life is definitely in our socials (32 social orgs vs. 4-or-so honour, 1 professional, and 1 service).

LucyKKG · #8 07-28-2010, 08:28 PM

My school had practically 0 academic GLOs. There was one pre-med sorority, but they acted kind of like a social sorority, and it was pretty much accepted that you joined that or another sorority but not both. Alpha Phi Omega started a chapter in the last year or two. That's all we've got!

Oh I lied! Psi Chi is the psychology fraternity. Oops!