Do you have any local symbols?
 

I know on our campus, almost all sororities have a local symbol/mascot/etc

heres the ones I know:

Phi Sigma Sigma: Teddy Bears and Sunshines - we've had the bear for a long time, and the sunshine is recent.

D-Phi-E: Penguins (is this local or national? Cos we have Theta Phi Alpha too, and they use penguins, ones local and ones national... hmm)

Tri Sigma: Grapes

and there are more...

My honorary has local everything!
Tau Beta Sigma
National colors: blue and white, national flower american beauty rose, long stemmed.

Local: colors: hunter green and white, flower: white lilly with purple trim, local mascot: monarch butterfly


Do you have a local mascot? If so, what is it and how did you get it?

<3Ali

The 8 ball, because we're in region 8.

ZTA doesn't really have any national 'mascots', I don't think, but different chapters I've heard of use penguins, bunnies, zebras, and Snoopy.

Our chapter uses bunnies, and I know that's a pretty common ZTA 'mascot' in a lot of places.

When I was in ZTA, they used ladybugs and strawberries. They still do.

Skiouros the squirrel is AGD's beloved mascot...and though it's not really any different, our local symbol's the surfing squirrel. It's something that's definitely unique to the Delta Sigma chapter.

OTW - a surfing squirrel? that's adorable!!

Sh80er - where were/are you a ZTA?

D Phi E's national mascot is a unicorn and not a penguin...maybe that's a local thing. Our colors are royal purple and pure gold and our flower is the lovely purple iris. If you want to learn more, you can check out our website [url]www.dphie.org.:D

Maryland ZTA's used a monkey (at least the year I was there)

Michigan State used the bunny

I am a member of Phi Sigma Sigma and our chapter mascot is a turtle....:)

Phi Mu's national mascot is Sir Fidel, the lion. Locally we use ladybugs.

Tau Beta Sigma--locally (actually the entire southeast district) uses Shells the turtle as their mascot.

AZD's national is BetXi Bear....we just generally used the teddy bear, and the greatful dead bear.

That's interesting! :) Delta Zeta's national mascot is the turtle. :D

I'm in a local sorority right now so we definitely have a local mascot and symbols and etc.

Colors: Kelly Green and Silver

Flower: Yellow Rose

Mascot: Butterfly

I'm not sure how all this originated. Our founders just came up with them I guess.

Alpha Phi chapters all use the Phi Bear as our international mascot and the ivy leaf is our symbol.

The Phi Sigs on our campus uses the lion as their mascot.

A lot of Theta Chi chapters use a bull or ox. I guess because the greek letters look like OX and its fun to have a mascot.

My Tri Sigma chapter uses the butterfly, symbolizing eternal friendship.

The ZTA's here have the strawberries and bunnies. It's funny, the first significant snowfall of the year, they do "Snow Bunnies" where they go outside in nothing but bathing suits and rabbit ears. Since it's a small college, like half the campus shows up to see it. It's fun to watch, but I'm glad I'm not out there freezing like that!

Re: Do you have any local symbols?
 

Ali,

The pengys are from back when they were still local - that was their local sorority's mascot. (Yes, I am old enough to remember that) This was before TPA was on campus and DPE had penguins EVERYWHERE.

Im guessing its a TBS thing, but the NED (North East) is Ned the Turtle!!!!! How funny!!!!

Re: Re: Do you have any local symbols?
 

D-Phi-E was a local? What did they call themselves? We were Beta Xi Omega :)

D Phi E was Alpha Beta Tau
Theta Phi Alpha was Delta Chi little sisters, then formed the sorority Lambda Zeta Tau.

See, you are not the only one with a surplus of Clarion info :D

When my local sorority became a chapter of AEPhi, we had to give up most of our local symbols. We did keep our local philanthropy, though - the General Israel Orphans' Home for Girls. We generally split the money we earned from fundraisers between the home and Chaim Sheba Medical Center (AEPhi's national philanthropy).

mascots...
 

Phi Beta doesn't have an official mascot. I know our Beta Zeta chapter in Boston uses the alligator (it's fun to say "Beta Zeta Gators!)

My old chapter voted last year to use the Penguin as their local mascot. There's also this giant stuffed snake that gets passed down every year to members. It has a name I can't reveal, but the new members all get to go find it during pledging. Sort of an unofficial local mascot.

One more interesting thing, our national flower is the American Beauty rose, which is red. However, most of the chapters have used the yellow rose for years. We gues it's because our colors are violet and gold, so you can tie a purple ribbon around a yellow rose, and there you are! :D

My ZTA chapter uses the white tiger.

SH80er, what chapter were you a ZTA at?

I'm a Phi Sigma Sigma from Eastern Michigan University and of course our National Mascot is the Sphinx. But our local mascot is the Panda Bear!!! And we have our local house pet, which is one of those Japanese fighting fish named Dio!!

*Steenie
Phi sigma sigma
~Delta Alpha

As a sister at angelphi sig's Tau Beta Sigma chapter i would just like to correct her...our local flower is the white lily with purple trim, and our mascot is just the butterfly no special kind....

PrincessSandra, perhaps you didn't mean to sound so harsh, but that last comment you made seemed a little unsisterly.

Perhaps AngelPhiSig made a mistake when she mentioned the monarch butterfly instead of just "butterfly" in general, and maybe she knew the exact color of your local flower but just chose not to go into specific detail. At any rate, I would be upset if one of my sisters had been so critical of something I posted. Just something to think about. :)

dzrose...i took out the mean part, but my friend brought up a good point... what would your sisters do if you didn't know the baisic information of your chapter? this is something that should be known, our kappa (kkpsi) chapter even knows it exactly for what it is, and thats sad when a sister dosn't know it but our brother's do....

ZTAngel, a white tiger is so unique!! I've never heard of that before... I bet you find lots of great stuffed animals and such for your littles!! (Where've you been? I haven't 'seen' you around too much lately and I've missed ya! The ZTA forum's so quiet!!)

I asked Sh80er where she was a ZTA, and she PM'ed me and said it was at the Theta Kappa chapter, at the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

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Sandy-

Just to let you know why I didnt mention the "purple trim" is because, even you yourself just say "White lilly" since the "with purple trim" part does not exist naturally.

Thank you for your time,
Alison

I think a white lilly with purple trim sounds like such a cool local flower. The fact that it, as you said, does not exist in nature makes it even more unique and special . . . that should say something about your sorority and I feel that you should be glad to use the full name of your flower.

~SuperSister~

Actually, if someone didn't know the basic information about my chapter, then I wouldn't call her a sister because she wouldn't be initiated. In my organization, you must pass a sorority education exam before you can become a sister and things like symbols are some of the very first topics mentioned.

However, to answer your question, if one of my sisters made an error in a post on a public forum, I would discreetly bring the error to her attention in a private e-mail or in a one-on-one conversation. I wouldn't criticize her publicly because that could result in embarrassment and hurt feelings -- two things that I would never want one of my sisters to experience due to something that I might have said or done. ;)

Tri Sigma chapters should not have local symbols. Although many do still have them (sometime traditions are hard to break). Our national symbol is the Sailboat. It's sort of cute that chapters have their own local symbol, but to stick true to Sigma we all are proud of our symbol the Sailboat and that is our 'only' symbol.

Sigma Love!

Hello! People's PMs are not supposed to be shared with the public!

It even harder to believe that you work with special needs children. You're just as boorish and uncouth as I am "supposed" to be.

It's scary. :eek:

I can't count how many times you flamed me, and now it's the time that I return the favor. IT'S ON!!!

I don't understand this - has it always been this way? If so, why were they permitted in the first place, and if not, why eliminate a harmless tradition (unless the local mascot is a cockroach, or something)? I know ASA has many different local symbols and there doesn't seem to be a problem with it.

Tri Sigma has never allowed local symbols, we have always only had our national symbol, the Sailboat. This has been the same ever since we were founded. You can find more information on www.sigmasigmasigma.org or contact an Area Director. If any Sigma's have questions about this, please feel free to contact me privately.

Local symbols are not harmful, please don't get me wrong, and some NPC chapters or local sororities may have them. Tri Sigma just does not. Having one national symbol creates unity, having local symbols differentiates us, which we do not want. Many local Sigma groups have probably kept a local symbol or started one because the national organization or national officers did not know of it and therefor could not educate the chapter regarding this.

Thanks for asking!

I AM AN ALPHA PHI AT CHICO STATE ARE SYMBOL IS THE IVY LEAF,

OUR MASCOT IS THE PHI BEAR AND OUR COLORS ARE SILVER AND

BORDEAX.


TIFFANY

Here in Miami
(Florida International University)
the mascots are as follows:

Phi Mu: Sir Fidel-the LION...but we also use ladybugs too...:D

Phi Sigma Sigma: Penguins

Alpha Xi Delta: Bear

Alpha Omicron Pi: Panda

Delta Phi Epsilon: Unicorns

Tri Sigma: Sailboats

Im not sure if the other sororitys on this campus have "local" mascots, we use the lady bug but our main one is the lion.. more focus is on the lion :D