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Do you guys call you "big" a big sis/little sis or do you call it mom/dot? In my chapter we have always called it mom/dot. I wonder what headquarters calls it?

At LSU, we call it Big Sis/Lil Sis. I wonder if we use those names because all other sororities on campus use them?

At University of Illinois we call it Pledge Mom/Pledge Kid. We also have Pledge Dads of PM's choice.

At Beta Gamma we have Big/Lil sis, and then each family has a mascot (i.e., the ducks, the dogs, the bears, etc.).

Thats different that you have mascots for each family. We did have a sister a couple of years ago who took the time to make family trees. Our chapter was founded in 1970 so it was somewhat of a big chore to do. But on founders day she posted them so everyone could see.

We called them bigs and littles - your bigs big would be your grandbig, etc. If your big had two littles you were twin stars. My chapter was only a few years old when I was initiated, so this wasn't such a chore, but pretty much everyone knew their family tree. I guess if you keep track of your family from the beginnng, it makes it easier later!

I'm a Beta Theta at the U of Idaho and we call them Bigs and Littles. . and your big sis's big would be called your Big Big and you would be the Lil' Lil' . And if one Big has two littles then they are Twins.
I like the idea of calling them Twin Stars!:)

We call ours Bigs/Littles in the Zeta Upsilon chapter. And we also use the "twin stars" thing. (I've got one! :) ) But the other sorority out here (Alpha Gam) calls them Sis-Moms and Sis-Dots.

Alpha Iota did pledge moms/pledge babies... it was cheesy in a very cute way, lots of baby bottles full of candy and cute stuff.

Man I miss those days, nothing approaches the spoiling you get for pledge mom week. :D

I miss getting spoiled too! And I miss spoiling my little!

i miss getting spoiled too, but my big and lil have since quit........but i try to still spoil my grand lil and my great grand lil :)

We call it bigs and littles (and grand-bigs, great-grand-bigs, grand-littles, great-grand-littles, etc). There are some convoluted families that have aunts (your big's twin) and cousins (your big's twin's little) and stuff, but people don't get too involved in figuring it all out!

We also have "guardian angels." You get a guardian angel on bid day that helps you get involved in the house before you get your big sis. The new member is the guardian angel's "little devil."

Also, during the new member period, you get a "star sister" who makes a cut-out of the twin stars and leaves an inspirational quote each week. Last year we had "kite cousins" instead of "star sisters," but my pledge class ended up with three kites at the end of the new member period, and that was a little intense, so we switched to twin stars :)

Sarah

That sounds so cool!!! That sounds like an awesome way to spice up if you will the new member program and keep it exciting throughout!

We just have Pansy Pals which acts as a mentor for a new member till she gets her big sis, which I think is the same concept as your guardian angel/lil devils idea :)

i have a sis mom.. and she has called me dot.. where does that come from? we also had rosebuds on big day.. instead of guardian angels..
we just go back a few generations w/ family trees..it wouild be so cool to go back further!

We had mom/dots at my chapter and like ThetaGrrl's chapter, each family has a name. There's the bear family, the duck family, the daisy family, the panda family and on and on. It all started because a member transferred to our school from another school and brought that tradition with her.

Our chapter has Twin Stars. New members get two Twin Stars on Bid Day. I always thought it was great to have two people help each new member get acclimated to the chapter (and sometimes school).

Being a charter member, I didn't have a Big Sis so we had rotating Twin Stars. Everyone would have a new one every couple weeks. It helped us all get to know each other better since we were such a diverse group. I don't just mean culturally diverse, but diverse in our majors, clubs on campus, sports, academic class year, etc.

The next semester we did Bigs and Littles but with a twist. Our chapter wasn't chartered until AFTER we had brought in a new member class thru Formal Recruitment (my school did deferred Spring Recruitment). Technically, we were ALL initiated at the same time in March 2000, but we did have Bigs from the Fall 99 class and Littles from the Spring 00 class. It probably seemed a little confusing to other Greeks, but it worked for us!

I am still in touch with my Lil Sis and we get along great.

We have bigs and littles, big bigs and little littles, and each family has a mascot, the bears, the cats, the lions, the flamingos, the ladybugs etc. On bid day each pledge gets a mentor who is of a similar if not the same major as their mentee and they help them get involved in the house and with any schoolwork etc.

I has also a founding member of my chapter, so the whole big/ little thing was a little confusing. For the founding class, we had Kite Cousins for the first couple of weeks. Each week there was a new Kite Cousin group, with about 6-8 sisters in each group. Each week, the Kite Cousin group would meet together and do a project. We do things like decorate tumblers, make scrapbooks, and make memory clipboards. This was a great way for the new founders to bond together!

Panhellenic spirit was huge at my school, so the other sororites on campus were able to Panhellenic pals or Panhellenic bigs for the new Thetas. The program had mixed success, but I still stay in contact with my Panhellenic Pal.

When we went through out first traditional recruitment, we had a normal big/ little program, but because there were not enough littles to match the number of big sisters, many girls (including me) have informal families. For example, I have twin littles, both founders like myself, who asked me to be their big. This was allowed as it was informal and of the unique situation.

We also had a Star Sister program where senior girls would mentor girls in their academic programs.