Do They Exist???
 

Do any of the following fraternities/sororities from these movies actually exist anywhere???

Pi Delta Pi, Alpha Beta, Lambda Lambda Lambda, and Rho Rho Rho from Revenge of the Nerds

Delta Nu from Legally Blonde

Alpha Gamma from an episode of the Golden Girls. I believe Blanche mentioned she belonged to them

Delta Tau Chi from Animal House

Delta Omega Gamma, Kappa Omega Kappa, and Pi Pi Pi from Sorority Boys

Can you think of any others?

None of the orgs. exist as inter/national orgs. in the NIC or NPC maybe as a local but I doubt it.

Re: Do They Exist???
 

Alpha Omega Pi (not to be confused with NPC's Alpha OMICRON Pi) from Pumpkin. I think there's actually a local with that name.

i think this had been covered already...

however, the fictional Delta Nu in Legally Blonde was changed b/c of legal issues. In the book, Elle is a Delta Gamma.

Perhaps there is a Delta Nu out there, none which i am aware of.

*this better be on jeopardy or millionaire one day*

I'm a nerd...
 

Delta Nu Exists

Kappa Omicron Kappa doesn't.

Delta Omicron Gamma doesn't.

Pi Delta Pi doesn't.

Alpha Beta doesn't, nor does Alpha Gamma.

Tri- Pi doesn't.

Rho Rho Rho doesn't.


Delta Tau Chi is exists as a local at both Iona College and and West Liberty State College.

Finally, my favorite made-up fraternity, Lambda Lambda Lambda does not exist.

This is correct. The Delta Nu came from the following...the house that Reese visited (while "researching sorority life" was Alpha Nu chapter of Delta Gamma at the University of Southern California. The producers squished the chapter name and the fraterntiy name together to get Delta Nu (Delta from Delta Gamma and Nu from Alpha Nu) for the movie.

Re: Do They Exist???
 

Actually, Blanche said she was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta, which most certainly does exist. ;)

It isn't likely that any national organization would give permission for use of it's letters or any other copyrighted materials for use in movies or TV shows such as these.

So, to use "real" letters would be an infringement.

I suppose that a local might agree -- after all, several have worked with MTV on their "reality" shows. Dumb and Dumber.

Grr! Epsilon Rho Rho doesn't exist. That was the robot fraternity that Bender belonged to.

And I'm not going to get any hits for Kappa Kappa Wong or Snooty House. :)

Heee! I was hoping someone would mention Futurama - that episode is one of my favorites! :D

I wonder if Delta Tau Chi made up their name from Animal House. It said they came on campus in 1986 which is way after Animal House so I wonder if they took that name from the movie?

the father on Leave It To Beaver mentioned he was a member of Alpha Kappa. Wonder if that one exists?

Delta Nu
 

Ok so I was bored and didnt wanna do hw so I googled and Delta Nu exists at Dickinson College http://www.dickinson.edu/~deltanu/ it says that they broke away from Chi Omega they have existed since 1971. But I dont think that it has anything to do with Legally Blonde. Its interesting to read the HISTORY, though its sad how it says it broke away from Chi Omega :( :( :(

Re: Delta Nu
 

That is sad because it does not make Chi Omega look good. I am sure there probably were a lot of problems with discrimination in the 60's with WGLO's, but that certainly is not a Chi O policy anymore (if it even was a true policy at that time).

Did Chi O ever try to reinstall a chapter at Dickinson?

Regarding Lambda Lambda Lambda, there was a local sorority by that name at the University of Dayton. It was the first sorority on campus in 1962 and in 1996, they were the last local sorority to affiliate. They became the Kappa Gamma chapter of Sigma Kappa.

Actually I believe she visited Kappa at USC... but they used the DG house in filming.....

Reese did say in an interview that she observed at the KKG house at USC...

Kappa was mentioned in the movie in Legally Blonde 2

oh Rachel belonged to Kappa Kappa Delta in Friends!

How can anyone forget Delta Iota Kappa from Van Wilder?

This is what I found on Delta Iota Kappa.

Also, I just saw the Axe body deoderant commercial where they drop off a manequin at a sorority house- the girls are wearing the letters Sigma Alpha Pi. Yes, there is a local with this name.

wow...what a bunch of diks...

interesting DIK exist...hehe

Delta Tau Chi is at Radford University.

Alpha Omega Pi is a local chapter here at YSU

Delta Nu
 

Delta Nu was a fraternity at Wayne State from '47-'50, when they were then initiated as Pi Kappa Alpha's Delta Nu chapter.

There actually was an older movie with Gene Wilder, in which he attended a Delta Gamma convention and actually began dating a DG. Thought it was pretty interesting that DG allowed the movie to use their actual name.

kappa kappa delta
 

So I looked up Kappa Kappa Delta which someone stated as being Rachel's (from Friends)...its a local fraternity at Trinity (even though I dont know that much about the school its in San Antonio Texas).

For those of you who have seen "Big Fish," I think the letters I saw on the Auburn sorority house was Sigma Omega Chi????? Maybe? Anyone know who's house they used... if anyone's... in that movie.

about auburn
 

sororities at auburn are not allowed to have houses-they have floors in designated dorms . each group has a suite on one of their floors. the fraternities do have houses so it is possible that they could've used a fraternity house at auburn. any auburn alums. who know the skinny on this?

Re: about auburn
 

Oh I have no idea if the movie was filmed at Auburn. But if you have seen it, Ewan's love interest supposedly goes to Auburn University and is in a sorority. And the sorority had a house with the letters on it. It could have been another school in Alabama instead, cuz that's where part of the movie takes place.

Re: Re: about auburn
 

it was filmed at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL

Re: Re: Delta Nu
 

There are a number of local sororities around the country that have similar histories. A former DG Chapter here, is now a local. It seems like a lot of chapters were ready to integrate and diversify long before the Nat'l Orgs were ready to make that step. It is proud part of Theta Pi Gamma's identity, and I totally resepect what those women did. To walk away in protest from a Nat'l Org is pretty huge.

I'd be suprised if Chi O would colonize at that college w/any group but that local. They are the original colony and that would kinda be rude to take a new group as a chapter, when the old groups exists. I know DG still writes Theta letters about affiliation.

Delta Tau Chi in Animal House is based on the fraternities of the 2 main writers (Delta Tau Delta, and I'm not sure of the other).

In Sorority Boys, KOK and DOG are based on the respective houses that the movie was filmed in at USC (Southern California), SAE and ADPi. If you know the Greek system here, it fits the stereotypes perfectly, though not the reality.

slightly off topic
 

Hey, is there any Fraternity or Sorority called Sigma Phi Sigma? That is the name of the fraternity in the movie I'm movie I'm writing.

Actually, Harold Ramis, one of the writers of the movie, was a Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) at Washington University in St. Louis. The movie was based off of his experiences at school, as well as the other writer's (who went to Dartmouth). I don't know where the 'Chi' comes from in Delta Tau Chi....if you're right that the other fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.

Re: Re: Re: Delta Nu
 

I was very proud of those women when I read their history. It's sad that they aren't Chi O's, but they did the right thing. I wish I could call them sisters!

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/trivia.htm

Co-screenwriter Chris Miller based the National Lampoon short stories that gave rise to the film on his experiences in a fraternity at Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1962:

"I was at Dartmouth in the early sixties and I belonged to the outlaw fraternity on campus at that time (Alpha Delta Phi). I always said that one day I was going to write the story of that experience. So, around 1974 or so, I started writing it as a novel and then the novel got cut up into chunks, which became short stories that ran in the Lampoon. The stories were documentary. They were cinema verite. When the script was written, the actual incidents that the two stories were about were the fraternity initiation that I underwent (The Night of the Seven Fires) and the experience I called Pinto's First Lay.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/flash...house/ah1.html

"I was Pinto in my fraternity. That was my name. In the movie, I think that Pinto is me as a pledge and Boon is me as a senior. All the other guys are guys that are so archetypal that everybody knows them. Everybody had friends like those other guys.

"I think the parts of the movie that were most true to my life were the road trip and what goes on during the road trip. In fact, the guy who was the original guy who tried to get a date with the dead girl was at the premiere. When the incident came on, he stood up and raised his hands in the air just like Rocky."

Now living in Venice, California, Miller said at the film's 25th Anniversary Reunion that he's writing a prequel to the movie. "We can't exactly do a sequel with the death of John Belushi," he said.

Re: I'm a nerd...
 

Perhaps not, but the geeks in my circle of friends (including me) often joke that we're an unaffiliated chapter anyway. :D

~ Mel.

If you click on this link and find the segment TSteven quoted, you'll find a link to The Night of the Seven Fires.

The movie "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag" had: "Chi Theta"

A MadTV skit had, "Phi Kappa" when trying to advertise Mother Teresa Beer