Phi Mu at my campus used to have the lady bug as their local mascot, also. I'm not sure if they do anymore.

Snoopy is the best mascot ever!

AOII's info on mascot, color, jewel and so forth

The Panda
While not an official symbol, the Fraternity and our chapters consider the Panda to be its mascot.

The Color
Alpha Omicron Pi has only one color, cardinal. It is the color of the Fraternity flower, the ruby and the ribbon sometimes worn under the badge to welcome a new collegiate chapter.

The Jewel
Alpha Omicron Pi has only one jewel, the ruby. The occasional use of pearls or diamonds in special badges has no significance or special meaning.

The Rose
The Nineteenth Century French rose, General Jacqueminot, a deep red rose, was chosen as the flower of Alpha Omicron Pi because its color is the symbol of the central and essential virtue of the Fraternity. Its choice had no connection with any legend, poem or story. This strong red rose, with its overtones of courage and vigor, was selected for its richness of color and fragrance, combines with softness and modesty of bearing. The Jacqueminot Rose is not available at most florists, so any deep red rose which is available may be used.

The Wheat
The wheat indicates usefullness in its harvest. The binding together of the wheat into a sheaf gave Alpha Omicron Pi the new member pin, the name for the magazine, and the rings for the president and international president.


The Name of the Magazine
TO DRAGMA, the Greek, is translated as "the sheaf." The name was selected for three reasons: because it is a reminder of the common interest whch unites all AOIIs; because it is a record of accomplishment, or harvest; and because it fittingly describes the purpose of such a publication, the uniting of members through communication.


The New Member Pin
The binding together of wheat into a sheaf in the new member pin represents individuals bound by the common bond of Alpha Omicron Pi.

My collegiate chapter's local mascot is the Koala. We weren't really sure why, but that is what our Founding Mothers chose.

It's neat to have our own local mascot, in addition to the Crown, White Violet & Strawberries of Zeta Tau Alpha.

The chapter that I advise has the bunny as their local mascot.

~Allison

At Ole Miss here is what some sororities have:

Delta Gamma: Raggedy Ann Doll, so cute! and Anchors!

AOII: Panda and Rose

Pi Beta Phi: Angels (love this symbol!!!) and arrows

ZTA (left a few years ago): Bunnies and Strawberries

Chi Omega: Owls and how cute is this, they announced their new members the other day in the paper as "Baby Owls!!"

Kappa Alpha Theta: Kite or Kites

Phi Mu: Ladybugs (very very adorable!!!), I've seen the lion a few times as well

Kappa Delta: The Teddy Bear

Tri Delta: Dolphins

Kappa Kappa Gamma: The key, the fleur de lis, owls as well I believe because each year they have a Halloween Date Party with Chi O called Owl-O-Ween

Our National Symbol is the Dolphin...

but we still have quite a bit of Angels floating around from when were a local. But all of the orignal members of our local are graduatining in May. I hope they keep the tradition of Angels AND dolphins.

My chapter of Phi Sigma Pi has the local mascot of Spyro the Dragon, mostly due to my initiate class, who came up with it. He's purple and gold (well, yellow), like the frat's colors, so that's why we like him. Now we have this huge blow-up Spyro that comes to events and wears a PSP sweatshirt and stuff...but we haven't degenerated to giving little Spyros as gifts or anything. :p

My Chapter is National so we already have the ladybug and Raggedy Ann, but when we were founded the girls thought we needed something to call our own, till we became National, so they decided on the frog!

There is a whole story and activity behind it that is shared with our New Members each year. I would defiantly recommend having a local mascot, it’s great to be part of a larger organization, but sometimes it’s nice to bring it back and have something that just belongs to your Chapter. It’s also really cool, because it’s a link to the past, which is specific to our Chapter so it seems a little closer to home.

Plus it has given us a ton more decorating options, our Lounge is always filled with Ladybugs and Frogs (our chapter never really went in for Raggedy Ann).

We don't, but I think it's a really cool idea! I can't speak for the other sororities on campus, though. For some reason, I was thinking KD or ZTA had one, but I could be wrong.

My Theta chapter's local mascot is the bumble bee because of the black and gold colors of a bumble bee :)

Even though KLP is a local sorority, my chapter the Delta chapter has a local symbol, the purple heart, that only we use. Our Epsilon chapter adopted it too but they died out and I don't think any other chapters will adopt it. One of our sisters in the Alpha pledge class passed away from stomach cancer during pledging so our chapter adopted the purple heart as a symbol in her honor.

My chapter's local symbol is the gray mouse.

the kappa kappa gammas on my campus use a red chili pepper as their local symbol. the guy who was the mastermind behind tabasco sauce (mcilhenny) had a daughter who was a kappa at lsu. once she became a new member, the family sent lots of tabasco to the girls and i guess it just took off from there...the kappas now call themselves the "red hot mamas" because of this :D

edited to add: i learned this during recruitment and thought it was a pretty nice anecdote to share PNMs.

We don't have a national symbol, though I know most chapters choose to use the penguin. Our chapter however uses a polar bear (since we're the UMaine Black Bears... I think it's a play off that) and our national flower, the white rose.

our national symbols are the columns and our mascot is the giraffe. as far as local symbols the closest thing we have is the green M&M. We had the "what is it about the green ones" rush tee and have been really into them since. We always have M&M' candys at recruitment and sometimes give M&M favors. And even before we had the shirts new member usually dress like green M&M's at the campus halloween party!

My Sororitiy's National Mascot is the White Bengal Tiger with Blue Eyes, our fruit is the Classic Red Apple and our Flower is the White Thornless Rose.

Colors: Navy Forest Green and White
Jewelry: Emeralds, Sapphires and Diamonds.

Wild As A Tiger, Gentle As A Rose,
I Must Be A Sista of GAO

Proud to be a Gamma Alpha Omega :D

My Alpha Phi Omega chapter was Mu Mu. We had Mu Mu (which we pronounced "moo moo") the Cow (a cute little stuffed animal) as our local mascot.

Our local mascot is the Leopard and the Butterfly. :)

Our national symbol is the anchor.
Our local mascot is the turtle, and our local color is purple.:)

I LOVE our symbols :

I love teddy bears always have. Espeically the gunn type brown teddy bears .....Phi bear is our hero!:)

Ivy well i will decorate anything with ivy ...i love ivy! ask anyone. my weddign reception had a lot of ivy everywhere.

and my colors thru my house are burgandy , hunter green( ivy) and cream ( well because i dont decorate in silver)


it must of been a perfect fit because these are things i had going on long before i became an alum initiate!:D

we're a local too- but our flower is the tempora rose- the pearl is our stone... and a piggie is our mascot... navy blue and white are our colors.... we also have a crest that symbolizes all these different things- honor etc... our alumni site is www.nusigmachi.com check it out

at our school- i know that alpha phi uses the teddy bear---
phi sigma sigma uses fish as theirs
d phi e is unicorns... and
sigma delta tau i'm not sure about

Gamma Sigma Sigma doesn't have a mascot, but we all use the White Rose as a symbol. Chapters are free to use whatever mascot they want, but as Sahara said earlier, MANY of our chapters use the Penguin as a mascot.

Here in my district (GA/SC) a lot of the chapters use the Penguin as their mascot. But there are 1 or 2 chapters that don't use it. They use a White Tiger or a Butterfly instead.

If Nu Chapter has any overall local mascots and things, we've forgotten about them over the years as far as I'm aware ... perhaps we should get some? Each of the families within the chapter has its own mascot, colors, etc. For example, my family, Xi, has the tiger as our mascot, tiger lilies as our flower, the eggplant as our vegetable (we just felt the need to have a vegetable ...), and black, white, and egglant purple as our colors.

(Can someone PM me and tell me what is the deal with the fratty guys and why they won't leave? I think that I missed something ...)

Ours is an Axe with a wooden handle flanked by three smaller sticks that are tied at three points up the shaft of the axe. The numbers 5, 1, and 3 are written on the three parts of the axe which faces right. There's a phrase under it.

Not sure if its a common thing, but we have our own chapter crest. One of our bros designed it and we put it on some t-shirts.

the angel is not Pi Beta Phi's offical symbol, we adopted it somewhere in the 1910's or 20's. A lot of songs were popping up about Pi Phi's being angels. I think it has to do with the arrow and the imagery of cupid.

Neat idea.

We don't have any local mascots. Our mascot is the lion (his name is "Alphie.") Our international symbols include the woodland violet and the 4-point diamond.

I love my sorority to death, but I have to say that I wish I was a Tri Sigma in your chapter.

When I was at the University of Florida, we used the Zebra. The strawberry wasn't a ZTA national symbol at that time.

We also had a different national philanthropy. It wasn't Breast Cancer but the National Association for Retarded Citizens.

Why do I find this funny? I guess I'm used to everything being so PC that I would expect National Association for the Mentally Challenged.

Well, I suppose you could compare the "political correctness" to the NAACP-- National Association of Colored People.

My chapter's local mascot is the alligator. When the chapter was colonized in 1961 the Kappa Sigmas did a lot to help us and we adopted their mascot as a thank you. It's a unique local mascot but it's hard to find any Zeta stuff with gators on it. Trips to Louisiana and Florida were always filled with gator hunts!

We don't have a local mascot. Like most Pi Phi chapters, we use the angel as our mascot. :)

While DPhiE's national mascot in the unicorn, my chapter (Psi) has the Pink Panther as a local mascot. I don't know the history behind it, but almost all of our scrapbooks dating from the 60's forward have him somewhere included. I like how it's unique, plus it was easy picking out a ringtone on my cell phone for when sisters call for I really like the theme song too.

Kappa Delta's national mascot is the teddy bear. We use the teddy bear and ladybug.

Thanks, Jocelyn! Now that "Rubber Ducky" song by Bert and Ernie is stuck in my head! ;)
Good memories.
Silver

I never even heard of local mascots or symbols until GreekChat!

BTW, my mother's log on symbol is ye olde Rubber Ducky!

we didn't have any mascot for our local chapter, but my family was way into our family tradition.. i was a royal and every royal was assigned a disney princess.. i was sleeping beauty, so i have everything sleeping beauty, and then we all have everything with "princess" on it, or crowns.. you name it. and it is REALLY easy to find stuff to buy your sisters (almost too easy because you want to get everything!). we also had our own family handshake and family crest, and of course family letters (with the discontinued disney "pretty as a princess" sparkly pink fabric). oh yeah, and we put rho phi (royal family) or RF on everything.