I went to an extremely large public university, and many members of the IFC and NPC referred to our BGLOs, LGLOs, AGLOs, religious-based GLOs, and alternative lifestyle GLOs (yes, we had all of these) as "not REAL fraternities/sororities." I asked people why they would make such statements and they said "well, you don't have houses!" and "you don't have rush like we do!" But it's interesting to note that the administration tried to get nearly every non-IFC/NPC organization to JOIN UP with these councils! I always wondered why the administration thought us "greek enough" to join IFC/NPC, but some people in those councils didn't even consider us to be "greeks."
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