As has been discussed at GC before, this is another Greek Urban Legend. See here, here and here.

Wow, did you mean CAMPBELL'S soup?

Hmm...Betty's not on our list of Accomplished Alpha Gams.

And neither are Carly Simon, Carole King, Raquel Welch, or Madonna!

Those 4 and Betty White are the ones we seem to keep hearing over and over again.

The other two I've seen Alpha Gams claim are Sherri Lewis (I think they confuse her with Fran from Kukla, Fran and Ollie) and Mary Tyler Moore (this was the big one when I was a collegian because she was a spokeswoman for one of the large diabetic philanthropies) But, they aren't on the list either.

You know....for being in the top ten largest NIC Fraternities in the country there's barely any Sigma Nu stuff out there floating in the cultural waters...

kind of odd.

Isn't Harrison Ford a Sigma Nu....so wouldn't it be more likely there would be Sigma Nu stuff in the movie? Maybe the snakes have something to do with them?

Oh, my bad...I should have read the rest of the board before replying. Sorry!

For Alpha Xi stuff, I know that Fozzie was created for us since Jane Hensen is an Alpha Xi and our mascot is the Fuzzies. And I hear that the first Kermit the Frog was made from curtains of an Alpha Xi Delta house.

FOZZIE!!! I love Fozzie, that's awesome.

Weren't the Indiana Jones movies directed by Stephen Speilberg? Speilberg joined Theta Chi at a college in California.

I stand corrected...I'm sorry-she is a Delta Zeta but, Rue McClanahan is Kappa Alpha Theta....when Blanche talked about her Alpha Gam sisters-maybe she was referring to her actual chapter name.....like maybe she was the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta (if they have one named that) because I realize that on television, usually you have to be careful to not use your own letters (for some organizations) and I'm not sure if Theta is one of the organizations that would not appreciate her using her actual letters-but, sorry and disregard earlier post......

She was a member at their Tulsa (Gamma Tau) chapter. Mary Kay Place was also a member of their Tulsa chapter (my gf at TU was a Theta so I heard all this back then).

The prototype for Kermit was made from a coat that Jim Henson's mom threw in the garbage.

Jim Henson went to my alma mater, U of Maryland and my graduating class sponsored a statue of Kermit that is on campus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:J...son_statue.jpg
His wife Jane Nebel Henson graduated from Maryland in 1955. I have never seen anything officially stating that she was an AXiD at Maryland- just stuff on chapter websites.
While I was on campus it was legend that Fozzie was named after an AXiD and that Miss Piggy was named after a Phi Sigma Sigma (which had the unfortunate nickname Phi Piggy Piggy.)

Disputing the Jane Henson/Fozzy/AXiD legend is this:
"Fozzie was named after puppet builder Faz Fazakas, who created the
mechanism that allowed Fozzie to wiggle his ears."

This link should also clear up some muppet misconceptions- this article says she was an Alpha Phi Delta- which I have never heard of....

http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/images/H.../DBack.97.html

On the Fresh Prince
 

The colors of the show name and credits are pink and green. Soror Yvette Bowser Lee is the executive producer. :D

This may have been posted already... but Carter (Noah Wyle) on ER is/was a Sigma Nu. It's stated in the episode "No Strings Attached." Carter goes SCUBA diving in Belize with his brothers.

the other day i was watching "supersize me" and morgan spurlock had a paddle on his wall in his office. the camera never quite angled it to where you can see what Fraternity he is in, does anybody know?

She could just use another organization's letters for the character...I don't know why any headquarters would get their panties in a wad about being mentioned on Golden Girls...I know their pretty spicy for their age, but still...but if Kappa Alpha Theta said no, maybe she used Alpha Gam because, really, what's it to her if our International gets upset?

Although Fozzie may have not been named for AXiD he did originally have pink roses on his bow in honor of AXiD. Jane and Jim met at the Univ. of Maryland (now a closed chapter)

Look, do you know this for a fact? Because after reading a lot of these, there's just no proof. They're urban legends. There are several cases where there's a known connection between a director, writer, etc. and a GLO, but if Jane was indeed an Alpha Phi Delta, WHY would there be pink roses on his bow for AXiD?

Perhaps they were pink because they look good with his brown coat!

Jane Henson is an Alpha Xi Delta from the Beta Eta Chapter at Univ. Of Maryland(1934 - 2000). She is even recognized by our Nationals. She is listed in our Bonds of Sisterhood book (new member manuel). She was not Alpha Phi Delta. And as for the pink rose, that is AXiD's flower.

Sorry if I came off gruff but most of this thread is ridiculous. That's the first time someone's actually posted that Jane Henson is recognized as an AXiD and not simply one more celebrity claimed by XYZ. (Dr. Suess' wife I'm looking at you).

However I am smart enough to know that the rose is your flower. I'm simply expressing disbelief that everything someone (or their spouse) does is colored by their GLO. Above someone claimed Fozzie was named for AXiD, now it's the flower, etc. I'm not picking on AXiD, you were just the most recent poster.

My school's chapter of AXID claims that their current mascot Betxi Bear was created by Jim for Jane. Perhaps that is where the confusion of Fozzie might have occured? Someone substituting one for another. (I have no way of knowing if this is 100% because I don't remember if I read it on the AXID national site at one time or not though!)

BetXi Bear was created by another alum. Can't remember her name at the moment.

LOL on Estelle Leonard!:D That was my maternal great grandmother's name! She was not AXO, though. ;)

Not a symbol, but there was an episode of Sex and the City where Charlotte has lunch with her Kappa Kappa Gamma sisters. Any connections?

Theta Phi doesn't have many (or any) celeb alums that I'm aware of, but penguins do seem to be EVERYWHERE (March of the Penguins, Happy Feet) lately!

Interesting on the SATC thing. Maybe Darren Star's mom was a KKG?

Morgan Spurlock is a Fiji - NYU '93.

I'm from Lambda Tau at University of Louisiana at Monroe (NLU when I was there.) We used to have our pref party and all of our special events at Bidenharn Gardens in town. The Bidenharn's were the first to bottle Coke. The owner's daughter was an AOII. Until she died she would look down at the girls participating in rush running around her yard. Red may have been in honor of her, but I've no proof that Mr. Bidenharn picked the color for Coke. I'm sure, though, that this is where the rumor came from.

Considering Harrison Ford is a Sigma Nu that could make sense. Rumor was that in all of his movies there is Sigma Nu symbols but I don't think so.

Here are two that I can remember off the top of my head:

Sigma Chi letters on the wall in an episode of the Simpsons (Matt Groening is a Sigma Chi)

Not Entertainment but - Following 9-11 and all of the US Senators stood on the Capital steps for a picture to show solidarity each had on a small American Flag on their left lapel. Trent Lott had a Sigma Nu badge on just below his Flag.

On the Daily Show http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewid...l?itemId=86621

John Stewart makes reference to Sigma Nu.

haha I was JUST about to post that....weird. The guys in my house now refer to themselves as "Supa-cool"

yeah I'm pretty sure there aren't Sigma Nu symbols all over his movies. I don't even know how hardcore he is considering he hates Ripon College (his alma mater)...

i know this thread is mad old, but this subject has been popping up all day (in conversation with some zta's at lunch haha) and it irks me. I'm an animation major, and I can tell you right now that disney animators(like a lot of animators) work in a very collaborative way. No one person would be responsible for alll of that-different people exist to design each character, and the scenery. So while it's likely there are some zta secrets in the film, things like ariel's hair color and ursula's eye color and even the five pointed crowns are probably coincidence. I just had to say it before I burst, sorry.

actually liz claiborne was not a tridelt, or anything else, she didn't even attend college

Even Wikipedia says she didn't finish high school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cla...shion_designer)

(I like this thread.)

At first I thought this said that Snoopy was not a Tri Delt.