Please. I wouldn't even stop for frat, much less Greek Gretchen from XYZ Sorority lol.

I will only acknowledge another Greek if I'm wearing letters at the time, but I will not pull over and chase after someone to tell him/her that I'm in a GLO. I'm a tall, black man. Wouldn't go over well :p

Pretty much.

Same here. I'm supposed to "develop and prize health and vigor of body", so we think it's a good thing to see letters at the gym. I wouldn't work out in a jersey because they're thick, but I in fact just got back from the gym and I'm wearing a mixer shirt with my letters. :)

Let me get a clarification here. By "jersey" do you mean a sewn-on lettered t-shirt, or a football/hockey-type jersey with your crest/COA on it? (Not that it matters, but people use the word interchangeably.)

Ok stopping the car is creepy, but if we passed on the bike trail I'd say something, but then I say hi to most people I pass on the bike trail.

Exactly. My Greek cheerleaders wear letter/event shirts to practice all the time. It ends up being quite the recruiting tactic!

We were always told to wear our letters to the gym, but NOT to wear our current recruitment shirts (with deferred recruitment, in the Fall we would get a shirt that we would all wear on the same day) because we had to wear them every week and they'd get too gross too quickly if you used them to work out in. But letters in general were encouraged. My campus doesn't do the whole "jersey" thing, so I have no opinions on that.

I would think a jersey would be gross to jog in because 1) they're heavier than other t-shirts to begin with and then 2) you layer the fabric letters on top of it. Massive boob sweat potential.

But other than that, I don't see a thing wrong with it.

As others have said, this is definitely in MYOB territory.

I don't mean you should stop your car. I like your idea of saying hello to anyone on a bike path, walking, whatever. I wouldn't just stop my car and be like, "Hey you-hey there...I'm an XYZ and I see you are an ABC...let's be friends!"

KS...come on now, you are a tall black man and that may seem intimidating but, I'm a short woman. For some reason, I think being a shorter female may not make me half as intimidating as a tall man. I'd say hello to you, though. :) I would hope others would do the same to me.

Actually, while checking out something else I realized that both the Wiki pages on both ADPi and Phi Mu include a reference to it. The introductory paragraph of each concludes with this sentence (as approropriate to the article): " Alpha Delta Pi/Phi Mu is one of the two 'Macon Magnolias,' a term used to celebrate the bonds it shares with Phi Mu/Alpha Delta Pi." The references seem to have been added by "PhimuNH" on December 7, 2008. She also added a reference to "Macon Magnolias" in the Wiki's article on "Fraternities and Sororities."

That prompted me to google the term, which turned up some other references.

I was surprised. I assume there's no official recognition of the term by either group?

Anyone can go on wikj and put something in there. The term was made up on here and probably carried over elsewhere.

Obviously. That's why I noted that it was added to those websites in December 2008. There have been over 100 edits each to the ADPi page and to the Phi Mu page since -- I was surprised no one had removed the references in all that time. I know we have some people who moniter our Wiki page and clean up anything like that that someone might add.

Unless the term has some official or imformal standing with the two orgs, which has pretty much been a GC thing, I would have expected someone to edit out the "Magnolia Macon" references a long time ago.

Okay... I'm bored at work and thought I'd weigh in on this old post because I really want the day to be over haha

Toward the end of my time as a collegiate, my Phi Mu chapter had some... image issues... so we would ask our girls not to wear anything Phi Mu related while you were wearing sweatpants or weren't very presentable. The campus rec center was one place where that rule was lifted slightly because it's appropraite to look a little messy when you're working out, it's less appropraite to wear sweatpants and look like you just rolled out of bed to go to class. But if you were going right from spin class to real classes and wanted to wear something Phi Mu... Needless to say it got complicated but the "no sweatpants and letters" rule was a rule.

Obviously as an Alumna I wear whatever I want whenever I want including wearing my letters to the gym, a nice way to meet other Phi Mu's. Now if Phi Mu called me up and said "please don't do that" I wouldn't. But there is no rule saying you can't wear your letters while you workout and yes, it's inapropraite and super nosey to say something otherwise to someone who isn't in your chapter. I say chapter instead of GLO because things like this are chapter specific.

Google the term "Macon Magnolia" and you'll find it in like 15 different places refrencing Phi Mu and ADPi, universities who have both chapters use it, blogs use it, obviously wikipedia uses it, a company that caters to sorority women traveling to Macon uses it in their advertising material. Although it doesn't have any "official" stamp of approval from either national organization I've heard national officers use it while representing their respective chapters in official capacities. It's not just a GC thing.

This is a pretty old thread. Just saying. (And there are national officers on here)