It's one thing to resurrect a thread from 2000, but it's another thing to resurrect a thread from GreekChat's original troll.

But hey...if lamacmil wants to play a game of "Who's d**k is bigger?"...

Hey, I knew this chick in real life.....ole evil heffa. LOL

A list of these credible sources and links to the websites please.

Odd... since according to ZTA's website, they alone have 191,000 members. I think your math's off.

I did a Google of "1 in 4 sorority women is a Chi Omega" and I stumbled on 3 XO chapter websites. A GC thread also came up: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=80874

My guess is that Miss paige_elise89 probably got her data from various chapter websites. To this day, I still find on some Alpha Gam chapter websites that Betty White, Madonna, and Carly Simon are some of Accomplished Alpha Gams (untrue, DUH). It's like playing a game of telephone -- chapter webmasters see this info on other chapter sites and automatically assume that it's true. They pass on this information by posting it on their own websites and continue the untruths.

This isn't meant to belittle Chi Omega in any way. It's wonderful to be proud of your sorority's accomplishments, but there really isn't a need to take such a boastful and haughty tone when showing pride for your organization.

Back (sort of) to the topic - when did NPCs start doing hand signs? I see them on a lot of websites. Are they official? (To the best of my knowledge, there are no Gamma Phi ones. Well, you can make your hand into a "c" for a crescent, but that looks like you are about to break into "C is for Cookie".)

These have all been debunked or further clarified on Greek Chat.

I was wondering the same thing about handsigns. We never did them. I am pretty sure that AOII doesn't have an official handsign-- but I do see allot of chapter websites with women doing similar handsigns. On a side note, we do have an official whistle but I have only heard it once- it wasn't something we did (and I couldn't do it even if I wanted to!).

I've seen a lot of deltas, using forefingers and thumbs, in pictures but the Trident won't accept pictures with them in it. So I don't think it's official, at least for us.

Calls (whistles)
 

I think many of the NPCs have whistles - we just don't use them like they did 100 years ago. (I THINK I remember Gamma Phis!)

APO Philippines has a whistle. I have forgotten it though. I learned it at the Louisville Convention in 06.

Personally, I feel like whistles, hand signs, calls, handshakes, etc are PRIVATE and should not be done enough that non-members can recognize them. Just my opinion, though.

It's not right to post the secrets of organizations. Even if it is your own, you should respect the people who do keep it a secret.

Preaching to the choir...

Ding ding ding! I win!

Again, as stated earlier by 33girl, these "facts" you pulled from Wikipedia and various chapter websites have all been debunked on GC already.

Thanks for playing.

LOL! I'm still wondering about that 1 in 4 thing. Where did that even come from?

Or we could all just ask the Masons.

I am a Fraternity Man as well as a Freemason, so I can tell you a few things. We have signs, handshakes, words, grips and multiple other means of recognition for Brothers. Seeing as the Collegiate Fraternity evolved from Freemasonry, it is understandable that many organizations have similar means of recognition.

Did that answer a question or something?

Groups of humans have been doing the "how shall we recognize each other" thing forever. Before Masonry existed. They are just the longest lasting collective with a record of these things. And we know that GLOs evolved from Masonry just as Masonry evolved from something.

EXACTLY. I read that secret societies in Africa also have similar ways of recognizing eachother and showing unity.

Yep.

Not to mention the alleged use of the "the Jesus fish"/Ictus as a way for Christians to identify one another without risking religious persecution. That's not so much a secret method used by a "secret society" but it goes to show that humans have been doing this stuff forever.

Chi Omega is the largest women's organization in the United States, even bigger than the Girl Scouts. This is a common knowledge fact available to anyone. All Greeks are taught this at some point. :)

lol. damn, my dean must've slipped up on that one. or maybe i'm not a real greek after all. :(

You're phonecian. Haha.

Conratulations on your initiation to Chi Omega. I sincerely hope you stay as proud of your GLO in the years to come as you are now.

However, not all greeks are taught about how many ChiOs exist. Some of us belong to non-greek organizations which, whether you want to believe it or not, do have more members than Chi Omega - many more. We just tend to smile and let y'all be happy with this "common knowledge fact".

GreekChat as a whole tends to be very Panhellenic. I realize that you're just on your first post, but you may want to keep that in mind. I say this with kindness in my heart, but trust me, there will be some who won't be so tactful a second time around. Again, my congratulations.

but....but.....even my real name is greek!!

....am i in the matrix? :confused:

Right? XO was not on my radar when I was pledging lol

how rude. stop being a fake greek and go study XO information.

Uh, no. I'm Greek and I can assure you there was nothing about Chi Omega in our pledge program, or afterwards. Many of my sisters probably have no idea Chi Omega even exists because it wasn't on their campus.

And your information is false. I use this morning to introduce a new acronym: PRBP (Please Research Before Parrotting).

This is the "less tactful" post. Honeychile and I are like the light and dark sides of Pittsburgh.

lol

:D

Maybe I missed something, but, what does Chi Omega Fraternity's membership have to do with the topic of "calls and hand signs"?

Only those who are taught incorrect information.

A great addition to the GC Dictionary, I think!

Is it just me (and 5Knowledge1913 :D) or does SXB90lm's post seem random -- both as a first post and in the context of this thread, which SXB90lm bumped?

lol Chi Omega wasn't even on my planet until GC!

OH! And here's why she replied... This is the second post on the whole thread.

No one even told me this was being discussed. I would have enjoyed this! :D

1) I was clearing up some incorrect information posted above my original post.
2) Panhellenic love! I did not mean for it to come off as rude in any manner. Actually to assume that something written online is rude without it being directly so, is rude itself, don't you agree?
3) http://answers.google.com/answers/th...id/245950.html . There are many ways to refer to "women's organizations" but as far as women's GLOs, Chi Omega is the largest nationally. This was not a bragging point but merely correcting someone before me. ;)
4) If you want to continue this disagreement, please do so respectfully, or at least in a PM! We're ladies. Have some tact!

Most importantly...
5) I love all my Panhellenic Sisters, and I apologize if my assuming it was "common knowledge" came off as offensive, for every chapter at my university is taught this, it is a question on trivia day during Greek Week, and many friends of mine at universities all over the nation, including ones without a Chi Omega chapter, seem to know this from their new member period (WOW that was a long sentence!). Just like we all know ADPi was the first sorority, Pi Phi was the first national organization, Gamma Phi was the first women's fraternity to be called a sorority, etc.

You also have to remember that the Greek system is far more then just NPC. Like I can tell you what the largest fraternity is, and name the first five founded, but I knew nothing bout sororities until GC.

ETA: Also I didn't learn shit about even the existence of NPHC and NALFO as a pledge. what little I knew before GC was stuff I thought myself as a young brother.

Not sure if my NM Coordinator was wrong or what, but I was also taught that Chi Omega was the largest NPC org when I was a NM. To be fair though, they had a chapter on my campus so they were definitely "on our radar." We were also told that ZTA was the third largest NPC org in the nation. If these figures are wrong, then I'd like to know the correct figures because I can assure you, that's still being taught (a NM at a local collegiate chapter of ZTA told me that the other night at dinner).

And I liked the convo about handsigns. Just sayin'. And I just realized how this thread was totally bumped up there - wasn't there another thread about handsigns recently...?

No, you were perpetuating incorrect information. You said, and I quote with emphasis:

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Originally Posted by SXB90lm (Post 1878223) Chi Omega is the largest women's organization in the United States, even bigger than the Girl Scouts. This is a common knowledge fact available to anyone. All Greeks are taught this at some point. :)

Chi Omega, a wonderful organization, is not "the largest women's organization" in the United States.

According to Chi Omega's national website, it is "the largest women’s fraternal organization in the world with over 290,000 initiates and 171 collegiate chapters." According to the website of the Girl Scouts of the USA, "Today, there are 3.3 million Girl Scouts—2.4 million girl members and 928,000 adult members working primarily as volunteers."

Awesome what can be found on the web in 2 minutes.

As noted above, though, that's not what you said. You said the largest women's organzation, not women's GLO. When a claim like this is made, accuracy matters.
Speak for yourself. I'm sporting some Y chromosomes, as are a number of other folks around here. ;)

LOL!