At my school GDIs were just non-Greek, no negative connotation.

However, my mother has a yearbook from her college years that had a GDI editorial staff. The editors made all the GLOs have specific pictures taken or they couldn't be in the book. The had 3 sororities. One group was in pajamas w/sleeping bags/pillows etc b/c their rep was that they slept around, another was dressed like little girls (complete w/bottles, pacifiers and thumb sucking) b/c they were "daddy's girls" and the third had their picture taken at the town dump - b/c, well, you can figure it out. They did the same thing with the guys and their reps.

Of course, the "we're better than you Greeks" GDI editors had their own picture taken and they had greek letters and talked about themselves like they were in a GLO anyway! :rolleyes:

I never saw GDI shirts or even heard the term before coming to GC.

But, there were a few student orgs at my school that wore letters despite not actually being GLOs. Ex. the Lecture Series Committee wore the letters Lambda Sigma Chi; SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) wore the letters Sigma Pi Beta. They would sometimes wear their letters at rush kickoff to confuse PNMs.

(Before my local went AEPhi, we were Sigma Iota Phi. I can't begin to count the number of people who saw me in letters and assumed I was in SIPB. :rolleyes: )

I'm doing something similar for friends of mine they all live in a house together which everyone refers to as the Geek house (they're all into computers, video games & pen and paper role playing games) so I thought it would be funny to make T-shirts with Gamma Epislon Kappa (GEK) on them.

I was a GDI for a long time before I became Greek. I was proud to be a GDI, but I was only a GDI because I had not yet found the sisterhood that was for me.

On my campus , and NAUADPi can correct me, it is not a negative connotation. Many people here at NAU are GDI's and they are proud to say that they are..........

God Damn Independents


*my campus is not that big and so Greek life is not that big either.

Actually the big thing I found is that when people refer to someone on this campus as a GDI it is not in a nice way... Usuually if they are just not greek, I found more they are refered to as just Indpendent. I still find that GDI is used to talk about people who are anti-greek.

This was exactly what I meant. It's so offensive because I hate what people say instead of Gosh Darn in the first place...and *normally*, when someone says someone else is a GDI it means that they look down on that person because they look down at Greeks, etc etc. I think the term GDI is bad on two levels: it helps some independants reinforce their false stereotypes of Greeks and makes them think they are better than Greeks; and some Greeks that use that term look down on independants either for not being Greek or for putting down Greeks.

If that made any sense whatsoever. :D All in all, I think it's cool to go Greek, but also cool to stay independant. Greek life isn't for everyone, and both sides should respect that.

Different strokes for different folks. If you think it's offensive, don't say it. It's not brain surgery.

That Is All:D

Before I was a member of my chapter, there was a girl who initiated into ADPi at UNA. Then, in that next school year she de-pinned, and trashtalks my chapter. Now she wears her own GDI jersey during fraternity rush and throughout the school year. It hurts that she trashes my chapter, which she chose to be a part of previously, then proudly proclaims "GDI" wherever she goes. I wonder if she ever let go of her hate for ADPi and the Zeta Eta chapter.......