Sleeping Beauty is my favorite!
Lucky!

My local uses our "recognized" symbols (siamese cat, white rose), and also some that are personal to the sorority (hawaiian shirts, leigs, margarita glasses (ref. Jimmy Buffet)). Our family trees also have family letters...one is sunflowers, one is ivy, another is polka dots, one is cherry and mine is this crazy bright hawaiian print!

My personal symbol is the Hope Diamond. It is VERY ELITE.

I tried to make the Knight's Helm the family symbol but that probably died when I left the chapter. :(

For Gamma Phi Beta our local mascot is the carousel horse.

We chose it because we are all unique and beautiful individuals moving toward the same common goals and purpose.

With Gamma Sig, we used the Penguin.

You're an ass - go back to fratty. Why would you even bother to post this? Invest in spell check too. This was a nice community before the fratty board got kicked to the curb.

Our national symbol is a Rose, colors are red & white. We don't have a national mascot, but our chapter unoffically uses a bunnie :-)

Since our chapter is only about a year and a half old, we are still smoothing out other details....right now we are just starting to come up with our family symbols....my family symbols are Tiara's and Diamonds, colors are hot pink, silver and black and I still don't have a mascot...I am leaning towards Tinkerbell, but I think I want something with a more 'Princess-y' or 'Royal' feel (I am the charter president of my chapter and currently serving my second term, hence the royalty theme in the family mascot....) Please PM me with any ideas!

We have a few that we use

The first, is a rooster, also referred to as a "cock"
The interest group we came out of called themselves The Roosters because they were kind of cocky, and the idea was funny
Some of our old composites have someone in a rooster suit

Today we sometimes use a goat (or a ram if we can't find an appropriate image on greek101 or whatever) to designate our worst sports team. We generally have a Team A, Team B, and...The Goats.

Last night I was at a COR party for the sorority that I advise. I was looking at their table and it was covered in mascot stuff (ASA is the ladybug and Raggedy Ann). There was something on the table that looked like a gingerbread man. I asked what it was suppossed to be and she told me it was one of the mascots. To make a long story short, there was much confusion amongst sisters and many of us new girls began wondering if the gingerbread man was our unofficial or local mascot or something. It turns out the gingerbread man was actually suppossed to be a Raggedy Ann. Yikes! It was hilarious, though.

I had a question for the ASA's out there. I know some chapters use the ladybug only, some use Raggedy Ann only, some use both. Are they both officially national or is it sort of like an assumed thing or an adopted thing (sort of how the Panda for AOII and the turtle for DZ is the "unofficial" yet everyone uses it- I have actually heard many variations on this info as well, please school me if I am wrong).

My Phi Sig family had a family print - Leopard on a black shirt...

We also had family "butt letters" which was pink fabric on the butt of grey sweatpants with the knowledge that "THESE DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE" meaning - Wear 'em to bed, lounge at the house in them - DO NOT WEAR THEM OUT! They were kind of a joke between my little and I. We sat in the house basement making them for my two little. (grand little)

This is the same for Alpha Chi Omega & our symbol, the lyre. Traditions are very hard to break, though, for many chapters - it is hard to find a huggable, cute lyre to give on bid day, big/lil night, etc. Heck, it is hard to find ANY lyre's that aren't connected with Christmas!

Also, the angel is not and has not been a symbol of AXO. Many people assume that the angel is associated with us, because so many of them are holding lyres!

mine too :) they picked it for my big's little before she even got me, so i got lucky.

theta nu epsilon
 

the symbol on some campuses (campi) is the wart hog but on
others it is the pangolin. Recently, though, the Tasmanian
debbil has emerged

Quite a random thought:
A Christmas ornament with an angel holding a lyre would be a really nice gift for a mother with one Pi Phi daughter and one AXO daughter.

As I said, it's quite a random thought :)

Ladybugs and Raggedy Ann are both unofficial. Most chapters use ladybugs, but not all use Raggedy Ann for the same reason as DG - copyright laws. There aren't any ladybugs on our website either. Our official symbols are the Crown, Palm Tree, Phoenix & Star.

we use pandas :-) random, but cute!

Or for Carnation when she finally gets an AXO into the fold!! :D Always pushing my agenda, you know! ;)

On that note... I thought I remember reading/hearing somewhere that Pi Phi never officially had an angel - just the arrow. But I can't remember my own name most days :o

No, dangit!! I get a Pi Phi first, then I can have an Alpha Chi!;)

I do know an elderly Pi Phi in town who has an Alpha Chi daughter my age, I could get one for her. Although the granddaughter will rush in the fall and is likely to pledge a third group.

I've read in Pi Phi information that the angel isn't official but I doubt that anyone will try to suppress it. It's not like you can find a ton of cute arrows around--an arrow's an arrow!

At West Point the cadet who graduates last in the class is called the Goat (named after their archrival's mascot).:)

An old joke...
 

You know what they call an M.D. who graduates last in his class?




DOCTOR!


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Thanks for clearing that up about the mascots. I often wonder why our official symbols aren't known more. For instance, ZTA is known pretty much for having the crown, yet we are not. When I was initiated I received a lot of Palm Tree stuff, however the palm decor is pretty big now. I wonder how our unoffical mascots got started with ASA. Anyone know?