DPhiE chapters:

Delta Gamma University of British Columbia
Delta Zeta* University of California - Berkeley
Phi Mu* Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University
Alpha Phi Ramapo College of New Jersey

*- denotes dormant chapter/colony


Some of the chapters at University of British Columbia has names of other sororities:

AGD is the Delta Zeta chapter
Delta Gamma is the Alpha Phi chapter
DPhiE is the Delta Gamma chapter

I remember being happy that my chapter wasn't the EZ chapter. ;)

Yes, if you look a few posts up, you'll see that we do have a Gamma Phi chapter, they're at Auburn in Alabama. They also have cute jerseys. ;)

Butler University in Indiana is the Alpha Chi chapter of Alpha Chi Omega :)

HEY... I resemble that remark :-} It ain't so bad, and yes, I had a guard on my pin. The Kappa Alpha Theta chapter at Ole Miss is designated Epsilon Zeta.

You are right about getting teased though. How many times a day do you think we got a smirk?? And of course, people who insisted on calling us "KATs" thought they were being doubly cute..... SO freaking original. A good "Southern-Lady-Miss-Manners-Approved" icey stare, with an assurance that we had no idea what they were talking about, usually shut them up!

I've wondered that too... the UBC Delta Gamma chapter is called Alpha Phi, but I don't know any UBC DGs well enough to ask them if there has ever been any confusion. The chapters are so different though, I hardly think there would be.

I am from the Delta Gamma chapter of Phi Sigma Sigma.... =) There's never really any confusion though because we don't have a DG chapter on our campus .

Funny thing is that the Pi Kappa Phi chapter at my school is Eta Omicron.... (HO chapter) Yeah... the brothers like play that up just a bit... ;)

hehe, Im in the Theta Tau chapter of AXO... I never heard of the other groups...

my friends and I used to joke around that we'd create an "underground" sorority called Theta Tau of all disgrunted sisters of our chapter... but we never did. :p

Ah you beat me to it! :p

All of my AXO friends love the fact that they're the Alpha Chi chapter. :) They all have this really cute lettered AX pin guard.

Not only that, but at the UBC campus...
AGD is Delta Zeta chapter,
DPhiE is Delta Gamma chapter and yes,
DG is Alpha Phi chapter.

I don't think Chapter Designations come up much during the recruitment conversations, to be honest with you. Most girls are just trying to differentiate their Phis from their Pis. ;)

Haha my friends and I used to joke around that we would do the same thing, but since we are the Chi chapter the most obvious name for our secret chapter of course is Tri Chi...XXX. :rolleyes: Needless to say that one never really got off the ground, but we use it a lot as the "rival" sorority now in serenades and such. We're dorks, what can I say? :D :cool:

This reminds me of something that happened at my school... Many years ago, the Sigma Nu chapter at my school decided they wanted to go coed. Their national was not amused. So the chapter relinquished its charter and began to operate as a coed local fraternity called Epsilon Theta (which had been its Sigma Nu chapter designation).

In the mid 1990s, Sigma Nu recolonized. It soon became clear that they intended to restore the chapter's original designation of Epsilon Theta. Epsilon Theta, the local, tried to block it and force Sigma Nu to pick a new chapter designation. But Sigma Nu is just a little bigger than Epsilon Theta ;) and the chapter was rechartered with its original designation.

Rushees don't seem to get confused. One house has women who are members at their rush parties, the other has women who aren't. ;)

But it'd be pretty confusing to be the Alpha PHEE chapter of Gamma PHEYE Beta or Pi Beta PHEYE. ;)

Or Alpha Epsilon PHEYE ;)

The Alpha Phis at my school used to sing a song that went "It's PHEE, not PHEYE" or something like that. I think they sang it just for our benefit :p (j/k) (AEPhi was the only other sorority with a Phi in its name, though we had a bunch of fraternities - Phi Delta Theta, Pi Lambda Phi, Phi Beta Epsilon (local), etc - all of whom also pronounced it PHEYE.)

Oh darn it - I've turned this into a PHEE vs PHEYE debate :p

A phi Bubbles I remember that thread about the Alpha Phi chapters... :) it was there... I don't know what happened to it.. but it was there...

ZTA chapters:

Alpha Phi: Northwestern (inactive)
Delta Gamma: High Point University
Delta Zeta: Sam Houston State University
Delta Chi: William Jewell College
Delta Upsilon: West Virginia Wesleyan College
Zeta Psi: Jacksonville State University
Theta Chi: George Mason University
Theta Tau: University of North Carolina
Theta Xi: Rutgers
Kappa Delta: University of Arizona (inactive)

Delta Omicron has the following chapters:

Alpha Phi -- Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL
Delta Gamma -- Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO (inactive)
Delta Omicron -- Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (inactive)
Delta Upsilon -- Kent State Univ., Kent, OH
Delta Chi -- Univ. of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE
Gamma Phi -- LaGrange College, LaGrange, GA (inactive)

I don't know why we don't have a Delta Zeta chapter... it's not listed on the website even as inactive, but we certainly passed that in the order.... :confused:

Edited: and special for Heather, Kath, etc:
Gamma Gamma -- Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI (inactive)

Alpha Gamma Delta at Auburn is the Gamma Delta chapter....close enough!;)

Our UWM chapter is Gamma Gamma. :D

I don't see whats confusing...I mean especially if its at a school where there is an Alpha Phi chapter. If a person has heard of Alpha Phi they know about the special pronunciation and the fact that it doesn't apply to any other group. Maybe on campuses that don't have Alpha Phi it would be kinda weird cuz people would be like "whats this 'phee' business" but...whatever.

:rolleyes:

I'm a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter of Sigma Nu. It only got confusing when we were using badge numbers to refer to each other around people who were outside of the fraternity.

Kitso
KS 361

Phi Beta Sigma has a Phi Beta Sigma chapter. It's an alumni chapter. I don't think that I will see us reach a Zeta Phi Beta chapter in my lifetime. :(

Re: Chapters with the same name as the frat/sorority
 

The National Board of Alpha Phi Omega has already decided that there will NOT be an "Alpha Phi Omega Chapter".

I have also been told they have decided there will not be an "Omega Omega Omega" chapter as well.

I am in the Kappa Alpha chapter of Phi Mu.....we have KA on our campus. This causes a couple of confusing things!

1) When people see our badge guards, they always ask why we have the fraternity letters on it!

2)People think that KA is our "brother chapter" (They're not. We don't have those here...or at least Phi Mu doesn't!)

As an interesting (to us Alpha Gams at least!) side note, there is no Epsilon Pi chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta... but if there was, think how cool it would be to say that you were from Epsilon Pi chapter!

I know that in the case of chapter designations that begin with a vowel and have as their second letter one whose pronunciation would change (Phi or Xi), the policy is to pronounce it in the "standard" (ie better known) way... such as our Alpha Phi (PHEYE) chapter at Marietta College, OH (inactive).

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Brings up another point...

do you think there will ever be a "Lambda Lambda Lambda" Chapter...or a "Omega Mu"?? :p


Sorry, I watched Revenge of the Nerds this weekend.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what so exciting about Epsilon Pi Chapter? I just don't get it (yet) :confused:

Kappa Delta has the following chapters:

Kappa Alpha-- Florida State
Sigma Kappa-- Ohio State
Sigma Nu- Syracuse
Delta Gamma- Western kentucy
Delta Zeta- University of LA- Monroe
Delta Upsilon- Tennessee Tech

DaffyKD

Before I pledged, I didn't know the significance of chapter names. There's an IFC fraternity that has the chapter letters of a NPC sorority on the same campus. The fraternity and sorority are also very close to each other. So, I assumed that it meant that the two were literal "sister" and "brother" orgs. It turned out to be a coincidence.

Alpha Phi Omega
 

Alpha Phi - Washington University
Delta Gamma - Ohio University
Delta Zeta - University of Pennsylvania
Theta Xi - Saint Louis University
Zeta Psi - University of Oregon

My chapter has letters a nat'l GLO, but of course if I list the letters, it will reveal my school. :D

Thank you for posting, I did not want to be the only one confused.

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Yep. There already is. Omega Mu is my Alpha Phi Omega chapter. :D We were chartered in 1976, before ROTN was a gleam in anyone's eye, so of course it meant nothing at the time.

I don't think you're supposed to. From what I have gathered on here, "Epsilon Pi" has special meaning for initiated AGD sisters only.

The comment probably sounded a little odd out of context, but I thought Cynthia (Taualumna) might enjoy that piece of info... however the thread has gotten all twisted up here :p

Suffice to say that it's an AGD thing... :D

This isn't exactly the same thing but I think it's kinda interesting;)

GA chapter is at UGA!

Ga. Tech couldn't have GT (Gamma Tau) cause we (West Georgia) got chartered a few months earlier! ;) :D So they are Gamma Phi (which I would get confused when I first met Cele and other Gamma Phi Beta's.)

Alpha Gamma Chapter was at the U of Cinn but it's inactive.

Chi Omega has had the folllowing chapter names:

Delta Gamma (Denison Univ.)
Kappa Alpha (Kansas State Univ.)
Kappa Delta (Bowling Green State Univ.)
Phi Mu (Lehigh Univ.)
Sigma Kappa (Austin Peay State Univ.)