In response to Alum's OP:
Do you have Adope Photoshop or some other picture program?
It should be fairly easy to insert text into a blank canvas in a bold script, and make it however large you wanted it to be for your pattern. Depending on your program, you may even be able to make your text be a hollowed out dotted line such as the greek letter patterns are.

Oh for crying out loud in a bucket, when did the PC Panda sit his fat bamboo eating butt down at GC?

macallan, alum likes referring to her group as a "women's fraternity" because it makes her feel superior.

This is one of those things that may vary from group to group.

Even way back when I pledged Delt, pledges could wear the letters (Greek letters or written out), but could not display the crest/coat of arms. That was true of clothing and even on your car.

My impression is that the same was true of pretty much every fraternity, at least on our campus, at that time. Also, at that time, we were required to wear our pledge badges all of the time we were dressed properly -- which was highly recommended. Many of the pledge badges (althoug not ours) had the letters on them. I suppose that would be considered hazing today.


ETA, I don't understand the problem with calling something by it's official name. If a women's group was chartered as a "fraternity," that's what it is, and why not call it such if you want to. I notice that some of the NPHC groups append, "Incorporated" to their names when written. That's good, too, if that's how they want to be known.

actually, no. it became a sorority, because when we changed our name from Alpha Delta Phi to Alpha Delta Pi, it was already 1913, and the term sorority was in use. I would assume that when we made the change from Adelphean to ADPhi in 1905 it was sorority then as well, but I have no clue.

Actually, it is as simple as the fact that we have Articles of Incorporation, so legally we are incorporated. It makes a big difference in obtaining corporate sponsorships for certain activities.

ADPi has never been know as "Alphadelphian". Well, maybe to morons.

Shut up and go away. You're not funny and nobody likes you.

Adelphean...whatever...didn't feel like looking it up at the time.

How about fore runner to ADPi?

Just to be accurate, the word "sorority" is older than that. Sir Thomas More used it in his writings around 1530. Granted, it was never as common a word as "fraternity," but it when it was "coined" in the 1870s for Gamma Phi Beta, the professor who suggested it could have been drawing on a knowledge of More's writings. Of course, he also could have been completely unaware of the previous use of the word and done what someone before him had done -- gone back to the Latin sororitas and anglicized it in a manner similar to fraternitas.
Most if not all GLOs, certainly all national/international ones, are incorporated. I think DA's point was that members of Divine 9 groups often make a point of saying or writing "Incorporated" (or Inc.) when saying the full name of their organizations, whereas members some other groups typically do not, and that the choices of any given org should be respected.

Very good point, and I agree!

macallan25, to supplement OTW's post on page 1, here is an oldie but a goodie:
NPC sororities whose formal name is "Fraternity"

One of my Chi Omega friends explained the "women's fraternity/sorority" thing to me like this.

Many sororities were originally founded as "Little Sister" organizations to a men's fraternity. The term women's fraternity was chosen to distinguish themselves as independent from any men's group.

That is what I was told and it makes sense to me.

Oh yeah? Name them.

Your Chi Omega friend was getting her history muddled and repeating a Greek urban legend,