Originally Posted by Tippiechick (Post 1676991)

I am not concerned about ZTA not being ok. Trust me, we'll be fine. I am OFFENDED that someone would use the combination together in such a way as to make viewers connect with Zeta Tau Alpha.

It's the point that someone or a group of people went out of their way to do this. Yet, we should just applaud them or ignore it because the movie looks funny?

You weren't offended when YOUR letters were used, fine. But, don't sit there and tell me or any other ZTA that we shouldn't be offended when OUR letters are used (with one of our main colors).

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1676997)

You and every other ZTA that reads this shouldn't be offended. :)

Originally Posted by heyitszeta (Post 1676966)

Sure!

Name: Zeta Tau Zeta (Zeta Alpha Zeta...yeah, pretty close, haha)

Colors: Royal Blue and Gold (in the movie they are turquoise and yellow)

As a side note, our main shirts are the exact shirt worn in the movie, except obviously with ZTZ instead of ZAZ, and the lettering is royal blue instead of turquoise.



We refer to our members as Zetas and our facility as Zeta House. Our house has both our letters and the word ZETA on it (in the preview the house also has both).



We have been using the term Zeta and Zetas to conduct business for nearly 100 years as well. It is very similar to ZTZ, however we figure anyone with a brain will figure out that the movie is fictional, and no, we are not the same sorority as in the movie. We also believe that anyone who wants to use the word term "ZETA" certainly may. After all, it is just a letter in the Greek alphabet.

My fraternity is local, and one of the authors of the movie attended my (very small) college. During the time she was at my school, Zeta was having trouble keeping numbers up, and ended up deactivating and reactivating. The plot line in this story is that Zeta Alpha Zeta is not able to keep their numbers up and they are risking losing their charter...sound familiar? Our alumnae came to homecoming this past year and told us about this movie and that the author didn't want to make it blatantly about us, so she altered names and colors slightly. We all had a good laugh about it, because, as texas*princess so eloquently worded it: :)

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1676993)

Even if you are right and one of the movie's screenwriters based ZAZ on ZTZ and changed things so that ZTZ wasn't identifiable, don't you see why another group would be mad if those changes pointed to them instead. I think ZTZ is safe to feel okay about it...only people from Occidental college know who you are and will probably not think the girls of ZAZ in the movie represent the co-ed ZTZ. On the other hand, most people will see ZETA in turquoise and think ZTA who has used the name ZETA and the color turquoise in its chapters all over the US for 100 years. There is a higher likelihood that they will be identified as the chapter in the movie not ZTZ. So, cut ZTA some slack for being a little upset.

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS (Post 1677160)

Local trumps National. :)

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1677247)

So I guess a group of black girls calling themselves Zetas since 1920 isn't "confusingly similar"....lol

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL (Post 1677274)

Don't forget about the Phi Iota Mus! (Which I'm pretty sure are represented by pink-they have been so far)...

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1676982)

Which she did not go through because she is not your sister.

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 1676993)

Even if you are right and one of the movie's screenwriters based ZAZ on ZTZ and changed things so that ZTZ wasn't identifiable, don't you see why another group would be mad if those changes pointed to them instead. I think ZTZ is safe to feel okay about it...only people from Occidental college know who you are and will probably not think the girls of ZAZ in the movie represent the co-ed ZTZ. On the other hand, most people will see ZETA in turquoise and think ZTA who has used the name ZETA and the color turquoise in its chapters all over the US for 100 years. There is a higher likelihood that they will be identified as the chapter in the movie not ZTZ. So, cut ZTA some slack for being a little upset.

Originally Posted by Senusret I (Post 1676978)

And there you have it. :)

As I was once told as a teenager, the world doesn't revolve around my ***hole.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle (Post 1677361)

I'm really tired of people appointing themselves the "offense police". If members wish to be upset that their letters, colors, and nicknames have been appropriated for a movie which does not represent the organization, who are you to tell them that they have no right to be upset? GLOs go to a great deal of trouble to copyright and protect their good names. There are legal ramifications if they do not. In the case of Zeta Tau Alpha and Phi Mu we are talking about literally hundreds of thousands of members. Just because you don't care doesn't mean they must fall in line with your way of thinking - what is the quote, the world doesn't revolve around your . . . opinion.