Talk:Delta Gamma

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This article should start off with some sort of description of what Delta Gamma IS... although it appears to be a sorority or fraternity, this is not immediately apparent to anyone unfamiliar with the subject matter. Entropic 22:22, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

ball state..Maoririder 20:19, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fraternity/sorority

This article needs a few more explanatory words in a some of the opening sentences to make the men/women/fraternity/sorority stuff comprehensible for those not familar with this US tradition. For example, first we read: "one of the oldest and largest women's fraternities in the United States" which immediately sounds odd as one would expect a fraternity to be a men's organisation. Then shortly afterwards it says "Delta Gamma (ΔΓ) is a college fraternity, although more often referred to as a sorority..." which makes absolutely no sense at all to me. Is it women only, or is it mixed? If it's women only then why is it a "fraternity"? If it's mixed then why is it "more often referred to as a sorority"?

Most "sororities" are not sororities but Womens Fraternities. Many of these organizations were founded BEFORE the word sorority was even coined-hence the use of womens fraternity as the name. Some of these groups changed their name to sorority later, but many decided not to. That is why some of them are "womens fraternities" and some are "sororities" although all are referred to as a sorority in common conversation. ~~eelmonkey

MANY NPC members are sororities to this day. The page stated that only 1 member of the NPC (A Delta Pi) was still a sorority, which is false. If anyone is confused by the sorority/fraternity thing, they should start by reading about the National Panhellenic Conference entry.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)