This was a little while before there was widespread internet usage...hehehe!!!

(damn....I am aging myself...HAHHHAHAAHA!!)

but still...if you're greek, you should know the alphabets, i mean damn.

Right!

DS, you are not aging yourself (LOL), but before the internet age there was this thing called the library that had books and I am not sure since I am not a dinosaur, but I think the alphabet were in books or at least carved into a slab somewhere.

LOL......Just kidding. But seriously.....NO EXCUSE for her not knowing.

He really isn't aging himself. The internet wasn't widely used by damn-near-everyone even in the mid to late 1990s. So that would include me as one of the people who was 20 before I discovered that this mess existed.

We were given the Greek alphabet on a sheet of paper. Those who gave it to us didn't get it from the internet.

I really meant that he was not aging himself. I only LOLed because he said it. I also really meant what I said about the library. My mother and I went to the library a WHOLE lot when I was little and there was no internet, only a card catalogue....lol.

I went to private school as a child and I swear they would just make up assignments to make us write (but it made me a better writer so I can't complain too much). Anyway, I recall an assignment where I had to write a paper and cite it using the full citations from card catalogs and state which library I went to. T.E.D.I.O.U.S.

remind me of my campus. .. it seems today. people only learn the three letters in their handbook. and thats about all the greek they need to know

what does ox mean? is your mascot an ox?

do you haze?

and the most stupid/ funny one i've ever been asked: "what's the goat for?"

uh....what's the goat NOT for?

^^^ exalt - goat comments

To Blu and all others that commented...

I don't know how the rest of you all were 'raised' ( the only word I can think of right now...no offence.) But if that wasn't the first thing you learned before you went thru intake, it was one of the very first things you had to learn (at my campus at least) before you showed interest.

Not only should one know how to say them in order...but dayum...learn to recognize them!

Someone related to me how someone didn't understand how or why it was important it was to learn but just give up essential information....

To me, learning the letters is the KEY to get all the essential information!

Oh I was agreeing with everything you said. :)

^^My bad. LOL

Aww, 2 distinct NPHC orgs being nice to each other, very cute. Regarding this topic, as a Non-Greek, I have received personal/annoying questions from various BGLO and LGLO's regarding the topic of being paddled:

1. Why don't you want to be paddled?
I never said I didn't want to be paddled, and I sure as hell never said that I wished to be paddled, so stop assuming shit.

2. Are your friends afraid of being paddled?
Ask them.

3. Do you think you're going to be paddled?
It doesn't matter. Paddling is not my #1 fear. =\

:confused:

RMITY?