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You are right AOII was founded in the North, but the 2nd and 3rd chapters were at Tulane and Tennessee respectively. I'd say they are very Southern Schools.

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Trust me, Chi Omega's name appeared in that book (and regretably many other publications) without permission.

Marilyn Schwartz, author of The Southern Belle Primer, is a columnist for the Dallas Morning News. Her book was fun & lighthearted -- but certainly a SUBJECTIVE view on sororities in the South.

Chi Omega had her speak at our Panhellenic Luncheon at the 1994 National Chi Omega Convention, held in Houston. She was well-received.

authors/journalists don't really need permission to use a GLO's name, as long as what they're printing isn't incredibly false and/or disparaging.

I'll be the first to admit that you know the law better than I :) yet I know that one of the very first things we learned as New Members was that we were NEVER to use the name Alpha Delta Pi in any form of publication without vetting it first. That included the greek newsletter!

But that's a totally different situation. I learned the same thing as a new member. The reason for that is that they don't want you giving statements as representing ADPi.

They can't do anything to stop a journalist from using it.

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Hijack: I have not heard that quote in quite a while. Thank you, honeychile, for the stroll down memory lane.

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Always happy to oblige! :)

When I think of the term "southern sorority", I think of organizations where their strength is primarily in the South. I would include KD, ADPi, AOPi, Phi Mu, and Zeta in these. Of course, I know there are places outside the south where these organizations have good chapters. But if we are generalizing, then I would say those 5.

I would say Chi O, Tri Delta, DG, Kappa, Theta, and Pi Beta Phi are the six organizations that have more of a national strength.

Of course, this is just my opinion after learning about the organizations (including my own) over the years.

Silly question, but...
 

What sororities are considered northern if so many are considered southern??? :confused:

Re: Silly question, but...
 

I think that SDT could possibly be considered Northern since we were founded at Cornell, but then again, there are some sororities that were founded that are strong in the south...hmm...

the ones i really consider s outhern are:
Pi Phi
Phi Mu
ADPI
Chi O
AOII
Zeta
KD
KKG


At Arkansas we have:

Chi O ( well because Arkansas w as the founding school for Chi O)

Pi Phi
zeta
ADPI
Zeta
KD
KKG
Tri Delts


We had Phi Mu up until 1995/96 school yr til they closed

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Re: Silly question, but...
 

In my humble opinion:) "Northern Sororities" would include:

Delta Phi Epsilon
Sigma Delta Tau
Tri Sigma
Alpha Gamma Delta
Theta Phi Alpha
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Kappa
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta

Only cause before we started the colonization process, they were the only sororites I had heard of (save Zeta, and thats because they were on my campus). Honestly, I was never into the Greek thing and not many people around me were either. So my limited experience with Greek Life came from when I visited colleges for track, friends who went Greek immediatly at other schools, and good ol' Beverly Hills 90210.

I hear that AXiD is more of Mid-Western/Northeastern sorority. The funny thing is, our southern region has more chapters than any other, including the one that's from literally the middle of the country to the west coast. Most of our chapters down here though are at smaller schools; the only SEC schools with chapters are us and UT-Knoxville.