There's a lot of this going on in the Philipines. I find all of this lame. There's a Phi Kappa Sigma over there as well (as well as numerous other copycats). I think there are actually a couple of that have affialted with the nationals in the US (I mean like one or two).
On another note though, I heard from one of our advisor once, that some Phi Kap alums in Asia actually statred chapters over there and natioanls were aware but didn't make them official chapters due to the costs that would be incurred with monitoring them over there. I wonder if something similar is how some of these copycat "orgs/chapters" started? Personaly, I find it irresponsible of any alum to start a chapter without a the consent of nationals particularly in a foregin country where costs would be prohbitive from nationals being able to montior them and make them an offical chapter. |
Putting the Philipine crap aside. There's a local at my alma mater called Zeta Chi (a former Delta Chi chapter). Back in college I remember finding another fraternity and a sorority with the same name. The odd thing is they all had the same colors. I just searched to double check my facts and found a third Zeta Chi fraternity out there. I remebr one of the brothers at my school said they had contacted another Zeta Chi (don't know which one) about forming a nationals but that went no where. So, there's at least 4 different Zeta Chi's out there.
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The 3 NPC groups complained to the school's administration, who decided the rogue group could become a club, recognized by the college but that would not be part of the school's panhellenic org (which included the 3 NPC, 1 local and 1 NPHC). The group chose to become the "Students Going Gaga"* and wore "SGG" (Roman letters, not Greek letters). However, SGG was allowed to function as a sorority socially, including having only female members - even though their name indicated "students" and their charter indicated nothing about being a women's society. The group had none of the restictions of a sorority (like, quota/total, min GPA, required service hours, etc) so they were major competitor for PNM's for all of the sororities. Administration saw nothing wrong with this competitition, although 1 NPC & the local were lagging behind total - and the NPHC closed due to low membership) The local and one NPC made significant membership gains. The SGG's declined in popularity my last year (2006) on campus. *Names have been fictionalized for this post. |
Try belonging to a female fraternity! Most people think I am ignorant when I say I belong to a fraternity. I am soror of Sigma Alpha Iota, Theta Pi Chapter, Newport News Virginia. We were founded in 1911 - a bonafide female fraternity. No homo jokes.
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Yep, a lot of the sororities were founded as female fraternities.
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duplicate names?
whats the story behind Alpha Chi Omega and Chi Omega??
why are the names so similar? :) |
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Thank you for your post!:)
Informative. |
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Sigma Phi and Sigma Phi Epsilon? Delta Phi and Delta Phi Epsilon? Or Alpha Delta Phi? Kappa Sigma and Phi Kappa Sigma? Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Kappa? Phi Mu, Phi Mu Delta and Phi Mu Alpha? There are lots of these coincidences. I wouldn't read too much into them. ;) |
Y'all gotta TELL me when you're talkin' bout Chi O!
I can pretty much guarantee that 4 teenage girls in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1895 had not heard of Alpha Chi Omega.
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1885--Alpha, DePauw 1887--Beta, Albion 1890--Gamma, Northwestern 1891--Delta, Allegheny 1895--Epsilon, Southern California 1895--Zeta, New England Conservatory of Music |
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