6 Tips For Getting Along With Other Chapters

Sorority Girls Showing Each Other Some Love
 Sorority Girls Showing Each Other Some Love
 Keri  

On any given campus across the country you will find two types of greek communities. One is the kind that gets along with each other. The other is the kind that doesn’t get along with each other. If you are part of the former, then keep up the good work. If your campus resembles something out of Mean Girls, then pay attention. We have some tips for everyone in your greek community to put into action.

 
Don’t act like you’re all that different
Come on, seriously? Do you really think you are all that different from each other? You’re all about the same age, in the same stage in life, mostly share the same priorities, root for the same college sports team, know a bunch of the same people, and your organization’s creeds/mission statements share like 70% of the same words. Dare I go on? After you graduate, you will likely look back on your college experience and realize that you will never again be in a place with that many people so similar to you. Yet, you’ll make friends in the post-graduation world who will comparatively be much more different than you.

 
Don’t freak out when members of other chapters show up at the same party
Many of you will be forced to be at the same places because you’ll be pulled in by your relationships with your SOs. Next time you are at a party and someone from another chapter walks in, please don’t get all 7th grade cliquey. If you are waiting in line for the bathroom at the same time, try engaging in a conversation.  
Join forces
Campuses where the various chapters promote and participate in each other’s philanthropy events are much happier places to be. The more hands on deck, the more you can all make a difference for worthy causes. When’s the last time you disagreed with another chapter’s charitable cause? Never.  
Understand that no one person represents a whole chapter
This is important to keep in mind. If one of your members went out and did something stupid, you wouldn’t want someone to judge your chapter as a whole by one person’s actions. There’s already enough media attention trying to bring down all greek life due to the actions of a relatively select few.
Don’t talk trash
Unfortunately, this still should be explicitly stated. If trash talking someone else makes you feel good, please see the last tip below.  
Be comfortable with yourself
Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and go back to our middle school days. Remember the class bullies? Looking back on it, weren’t they the most insecure little sh*ts of them all? If you find that talking trash about someone in another chapter makes you feel good, then I suggest you examine your own insecurities.

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