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10-04-2006, 12:43 PM
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We had Heart sis and Big/little
Heart sis was much like SigKapBling's except that you would often get the girl who preffed you as your heart sis the first week. Then a different girl each week.
Then you listed the girls you'd want as your Big (but didn't know until a revealing of some sort)
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10-04-2006, 06:49 PM
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Oh, I so win this game I think.
I started with a heart sis, then after pledging in, you get your big (mine posts on GC which is pretty damn cool, I had no clue till afterwards. Love you Big!), then we do Secret Sigma, where you're left clues up until I-week before the revealing. Finally, we did do mother/daughter, which is sort of like the big/little pref listing. You don't find out your mom until I-week either. Now they've changed mom/daughter to Sigma/Kappa, which kinda made me mad because it was considered a divide between new members and initiated sisters, which I don't agree with.
So...
Heart sis
Big sis
Secret Sigma
Mom/Sigma.
No wonder I was inundated with so many gifts! Oh yeah, there was a spending cap on mom/daughter gifts too. Moms can only spend $150 tops on their daughters.
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10-04-2006, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by centaur532
Oh, I so win this game I think.
I started with a heart sis, then after pledging in, you get your big (mine posts on GC which is pretty damn cool, I had no clue till afterwards. Love you Big!), then we do Secret Sigma, where you're left clues up until I-week before the revealing. Finally, we did do mother/daughter, which is sort of like the big/little pref listing. You don't find out your mom until I-week either. Now they've changed mom/daughter to Sigma/Kappa, which kinda made me mad because it was considered a divide between new members and initiated sisters, which I don't agree with.
So...
Heart sis
Big sis
Secret Sigma
Mom/Sigma.
No wonder I was inundated with so many gifts! Oh yeah, there was a spending cap on mom/daughter gifts too. Moms can only spend $150 tops on their daughters.
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10-04-2006, 09:15 PM
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Goodness!! This certainly has become the hijacked "Sigma Kappa" thread now hasn't it?
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10-04-2006, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by centaur532
Oh, I so win this game I think.
I started with a heart sis, then after pledging in, you get your big (mine posts on GC which is pretty damn cool, I had no clue till afterwards. Love you Big!), then we do Secret Sigma, where you're left clues up until I-week before the revealing. Finally, we did do mother/daughter, which is sort of like the big/little pref listing. You don't find out your mom until I-week either. Now they've changed mom/daughter to Sigma/Kappa, which kinda made me mad because it was considered a divide between new members and initiated sisters, which I don't agree with.
So...
Heart sis
Big sis
Secret Sigma
Mom/Sigma.
No wonder I was inundated with so many gifts! Oh yeah, there was a spending cap on mom/daughter gifts too. Moms can only spend $150 tops on their daughters.
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we have something like that, secret sigma, but its the secret senior - you get one your "senior" year, or whatever year your going through order ... you get one sister to pair up with a senior and they give her gifts all semester long.. its so sweet. and at the end you reveal yourself to the senior at order i believe?? its so much fun
haha yeah i noticed that too.. its become the "what kind of ??/?? does your sigma kappa chapter have"!!!!
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10-04-2006, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by BaylorBean
Goodness!! This certainly has become the hijacked "Sigma Kappa" thread now hasn't it?
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Sigma Kappa FTW!
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10-05-2006, 01:45 PM
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Another main issue that causes drama with big/little is as many of you have said, the spending.
My chapter is doing a spending cap this year of $200 (this does not include big/little shirts). We also have a list of required items this year (lettered totes, lavalieres, and badge boxes), so that every girl gets these main items and doesn't feel left out.
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10-05-2006, 02:18 PM
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How are spending caps enforced? Do the girls have to show the receipts from their purchases? And does everyone strictly keep to these limits? I mean, is it unheard of for bigs to give their littles gifts "behind" the chapter's back and is this approved of?
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10-05-2006, 02:33 PM
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How are spending caps enforced? Do the girls have to show the receipts from their purchases?
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This is our first time doing a spending limit, so I think the VP is asking that we turn in receipts.
I'm sure it's not unheard of for people to give more just not in front of the chapter.
This is our first time using a limit so we shall see how it works.
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10-05-2006, 08:28 PM
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Wait, you have Big Sis's and Mom's? I don't get the difference?
We have violet sisters (which seems to be what all the other SK chapters call heart sisters). You get one on bid day and get a new one after a bit - supposedly. I had 2, and but this years nm's only have one.
and big sis's and the whole family that goes with that (Gbig, aunties, cousins, twins, etc etc).
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10-05-2006, 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by SigKapCoug
Wait, you have Big Sis's and Mom's? I don't get the difference?
We have violet sisters (which seems to be what all the other SK chapters call heart sisters). You get one on bid day and get a new one after a bit - supposedly. I had 2, and but this years nm's only have one.
and big sis's and the whole family that goes with that (Gbig, aunties, cousins, twins, etc etc).
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You get your big straightaway and then you pick your mom/Sigma, who gives you your paddle/first set of letters etc.
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10-05-2006, 11:42 PM
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You get your big straightaway and then you pick your mom/Sigma, who gives you your paddle/first set of letters etc.
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As a NM you get a paddle???
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10-06-2006, 12:01 AM
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As a NM you get a paddle???
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No, I meant, instead of waiting your entire NM period to find out who your big is, you wait to find out who your mom is instead. Then, right after initiation, you get your letters and paddle and other cool stuff from your mom. NMs, in turn, make their moms a pillow.
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10-06-2006, 01:02 AM
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No, I meant, instead of waiting your entire NM period to find out who your big is, you wait to find out who your mom is instead. Then, right after initiation, you get your letters and paddle and other cool stuff from your mom. NMs, in turn, make their moms a pillow.
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We don't get a paddle after we get in. We get a paddle when we get a little (the little makes it for thier big), if we are NME, or President, and that's it.
My chapterh as done paddle exchanges over winter break also, but as far as I know we were one of two GLO's on my campus to do so.
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10-09-2006, 11:15 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hegemon
How are spending caps enforced? Do the girls have to show the receipts from their purchases? And does everyone strictly keep to these limits? I mean, is it unheard of for bigs to give their littles gifts "behind" the chapter's back and is this approved of?
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When I was an undergraduate my chapter didn't have a spending cap and things were insane. The semester that my friends and I all took lil's we went NUTS! In retrospect, I spent entirely too much money, and I was probably in the middle of the pack.
Now the chapter has a spending cap for each Initiation. They enforce this by reimbursing for it. And yes, in order to get reimbursed for anything, you'll have to provide a receipt. For the most part this helps make things more equal and the members tend to stick to it. The amount includes enough to buy gifts for the week and the cost of a sweatshirt.
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