...were not "Greek distinctive" letters

[naraht]

(Not sure if this belongs here or Greek History)

I was reading the wikipedia page for Delta Sigma Theta and noticed the following phrase in description of the conflict for those who split from Alpha Kappa Alpha

They felt Alpha Kappa Alpha was solely a female derivative of the Beta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity with no individual meaning and were not "Greek distinctive" letters.

The phrase "Greek Distinctive" stood out at me and I starting looking through for Social Fraternities and Sororities where their Greek Letters aren't "Greek Distinctive" (no Greek Letters that are obviously not Latin Letters)

The NPHC has only one (the previously mentioned AKA), The NPC has only one (ZTA) and the NIC has six (AXP, KAOrder, KASociety, NAK, TKE and ZBT)

Has anyone seen any particular effects (other than apparently being part of DST's founding) from a lack of a "Greek Distinctive" letter?

[33girl]

When girls were running around with those EXP sweatshirts on, I had to look twice to make sure they weren't AXP little sisters. LOL

[Sen's Revenge]

The underground fraternity EI (Epsilon Iota) at American University looked extra corny when Nelly's song "E.I." came out.

[als463]

Would you also include Fiji (when not using their letters), Triangle, and Acacia to that list? I mean, they are spelled out words. Would that count?

[naraht]

Originally Posted by als463

Would you also include Fiji (when not using their letters), Triangle, and Acacia to that list? I mean, they are spelled out words. Would that count?

Not really. I'm looking for greek letters in the name that don't necessarily look that way since they all could be Latin letters. Fiji doesn't fall into that, Triangle (and Farmhouse) are obviously english words, and for Acacia, I believe they refer to Akakia, which *might* qualify...

[TKEfromthe90's]

Dartmouth College has a local fraternity Kappa Kappa Kappa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Kappa_Kappa

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by TKEfromthe90's

Dartmouth College has a local fraternity Kappa Kappa Kappa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Kappa_Kappa

Oh. Oh my.

[PersistentDST]

Originally Posted by TKEfromthe90's

Dartmouth College has a local fraternity Kappa Kappa Kappa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Kappa_Kappa

That's...interesting.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by TKEfromthe90's

Dartmouth College has a local fraternity Kappa Kappa Kappa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Kappa_Kappa

From http://www.dartmouth.edu/~orl/greek-...cs/history.pdf

1842 Kappa Kappa Kappa. Fraternity, Local. Became Kappa Chi Kappa in 1992.
Changed name back to Kappa Kappa Kappa in 1995

[FSUZeta]

As a ZTA I have never felt that I or any of my sisters suffered because of our letters.

[tcsparky]

On my campus, I heard this a lot from both affiliated and unaffiliated women about ZTA. As stated above ^^^, non of the actual MEMBERS had a problem with their letters! One ZTA friend of mine actually said that it was easy to find iron-on letters (back in the day) because they were "regular" letters!! She thought it was a plus in favor of ZTA!

[naraht]

Originally Posted by tcsparky

On my campus, I heard this a lot from both affiliated and unaffiliated women about ZTA. As stated above ^^^, non of the actual MEMBERS had a problem with their letters! One ZTA friend of mine actually said that it was easy to find iron-on letters (back in the day) because they were "regular" letters!! She thought it was a plus in favor of ZTA!

Xi, conversely being the toughest for iron on, since it was in three pieces.