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| Why don't you have Greek letters? |
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| The Pansophics Club was established well before Grove City College allowed fraternities or other Greek-letter organizations. For this reason, the Pans were more or less underground for a number of years. Today, our brothers carry on our founders' tradition of extreme secrecy (try asking a Pan what TB means). Furthermore, the Pan Sophic Club is more than a fraternity in the traditional sense. Our exclusivity and our secrecy, as well as our tight bonds dignify us as a cut above the rest of the Greeks. |
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| What is the meaning of Pan Sophic? |
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The answer to this question is not hard to discern. However, the best response we can give was summarized ninety-one years ago in this poignant article from Grove City College yearbook:
"Of course we must first have it clearly understood that this isn't the "Beauty Club" and before you jump to any boneheaded conclusions we will also remind you that we are not bound together by the ancient and time-honored ties of a Bachelor's Club. If you have reached that stage in the course of intellectual development where common sense and higher education merge into one mighty river of knowledge, the meaning of the word, Pansophic, may percolate into the hollow recesses of your brain, but if the term is dark and meaningless to you, go and search among the musty tomes of forgotten lore and there perhaps you will find an explanation as to why the title Pansophic is especially fitting when applied to any member of our highly esteemed association."
'Nuff said. |
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| Why haven't I been to the Pan House? |
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| Grove City College has never officially allowed fraternities to have their own houses. Therefore the Pans' home has always been "'Mid the pines and columns growing," right here on Grove City College Campus. Though this is true, for a number of years the school allowed students to live off campus. During this era of blissful freedom, the brothers of Pan Sophic did set themselves up a house in town. Naturally, it was the nicest of the fraternity houses. Unfortunately the College took away off-campus housing in the mid-1980s and Pan Sophic moved into Alumni Hall. Alumni Hall is still our rightful home, but currently we are living in Hopeman Hall for political reasons. Like Grove City's other fraternities and all of Pennsylvania's sororities, we get by without a house. |
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| How is a local fraternity different than a national fraternity? |
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| As a local organization, we do not answer to a national headquarters. To put it into more familiar terms, Pan Sophic at Grove City College is the fraternity's only "chapter." The brothers determine all rules and traditions for the fraternity and we are not governed by any outside force, except of course for the College administration and the Interfraternity Council. Fraternity colors, Greek Unity Week traditions, meeting procedures, philanthropy and special events, these decisions are all made by a single tight-knit group of brothers living together on campus, as opposed to a committee at a headquarters or by multiple constituents across the country. |
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| Are the Pans similar to other fraternities I might be familiar with? |
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| Yes, except that we are far superior to every other greek organization, national or local, in every way. |
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| Just what exactly does TB mean? |
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