What are the greek letter designations standing for? I recognize Vermont's as their founding societies letters, but Brown was Gamma Upsilon.

At Iowa State, we had a splinter in the beginnings of the 1900s. My fraternity, Delta Upsilon was founded by the Colonnades Club. Before the foundation, three groups split, at different times. In 1905 the Colonnades was founded, in 1908, the first faction split to become the Colonials because they did not want to be affiliated with a National GLO. In 1910, another group broke from the Colonnades to become the Palisades. From the Palisades, five men broke of to form El Paso Club in 1911. All four groups became affiliated with National GLOs.
--The Colonnades Club became the Iowa State Chapter of Delta Upsilon in 1913.
--The Colonials became Beta Deuteron Chapter of Theta Delta Chi in 1919; even though they had split from Colonnades because they didn't want to affiliate.
--The Palisades became the Phi Chapter of Alpha Sigma Phi in 1920.
--El Paso became the Beta Alpha Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi.

Some Alpha Phi Omega splinter groups
 

I know of 2 Alpha Phi Omega splinter groups:

Phi Rho Eta Fraternity (former members of Zeta Nu chapter - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)

Theta Beta Phi Fraternity--no longer in existence (former members of Rho Omicron petitioning group - U. of Md. Eastern Shore; the longest lasting petitioning group--5 years until the group got tired of jumping through hoops in getting rechartered and and voted to disaffiliate; at the same time, the National Board voted to deem the group inactive; albeit independent of what the PG was doing and vice versa. So in a sense it was a mutual separation.

Theta Xi chapter (at a now-closed school in New Jersey) was merging with another school. The chapter at the closed school was all-male; the school it was merging with had a co-ed chapter. The all-male group did not want to merge with or lose it's all-male status, so it disaffiliated with APO and became a local social fraternity until it was later picked up as a chapter of.....THETA XI Fraternity.

Side note: I have a feeling with the new requirement that all chapters must be co-ed, there will be more splinter groups forming in Alpha Phi Omega very soon.

And if that happens, good for them.

TRUE. Carry on. :)

Actually, not the case at all sorors, but too complicated to explain the full history here.

Quite honestly, considering that Alpha Phi Omega devolved from a Scouting based fraternity to a Circle K-esque Greek letter club, for those remaining all-male constituency of brothers who splinter from the fold because they want a fraternal brotherhood and not an artificial version of such, I have to say GREAT for them. And this has been the case for at least the past 10 years (I have APO-L archived emails of discussion of this caliber coming from such brothers going back to the early 90s--PM me if you want the links).

This is coming from someone who's 15th anniversary of membership is TODAY but have no plans to celebrate or commemorate in any way, shape, form, or fashion.

Negro, PLEASE.

You have been to my campus and seen my chapter -- Circle K? Don't get it twisted, dude. As long as you've been a member you still haven't seen it ALL.

When's the last national convention you've been to?

Shid, remember the quote "don't argue with a fool..." This is Rain Man we are talking about.

I know..... but you know I've always given him the benefit of the doubt, especially since I've met him in person and allowed him the opportunity to visit my chapter last year during our 50th. To say that Alpha Phi Omega has lost the fraternal spirit..... well, I guess it can't really bother me because it's never left me.

But I seen enough to know what I'm talking about.

1996.

ETS: Stay in your lane, Ladygreek. You don't know anything about the politics and brotherhood/social interaction dynamics going on in Alpha Phi Omega to be calling anyone a fool.

Rashid, I am not the first brother to compare APO to Circle K and I certainly won't be the last.

No soror, I wasn't referring to your story, just to situations in general. :cool:

In an attempt to get this thread back on track,
There used to be a FSU? or UF? chapter of SAE calling itself "The Lion's Club" but I don't know if they were incorporated into the new colony there or not.
Sigma Chi Omega(ubuffalo) started as a Sigma Chi colony. They were the MTV victims of a few years ago (Fraternity Life)
Phi Delta Theta lost at least two chapters (Sewanee, UVa) over dry house. They are both called Phi Society
A former chapter of AD was at CCNY until the 70s as Delta Alpha, and both the Fly and AD Clubs at Harvard are old chapters. Alpha Delta, of Animal House fame, is our old chapter. Nu Delta at MIT is an old Phi Mu Delta chapter. I think there is at least one or two old AEPi "APEs" in the SUNY system. UNH always seems to have two or three old (inter)national chapters kicking around.
I wouldn't be surprised if the two issues of dry house and traditional pledge program abolition will result in more chapters going local, especially in the South. You can see the dissatisfaction in the postings from many members of fraternities going through this.
So, any others out there??

The Kappa Alpha Theta chapter at Dartmouth surrendered its charter and became a local, Epsilon Kappa Theta, in the early ’90s. They decided to split from the national organization because they felt its values didn't reflect theirs.