Delta Sigma Theta and U of Alabama -a connection?
 

Good evening, ladies. I have a question.

I have a friend who attends U of Alabama. One of their school colors is crimson and their mascot is the elephant. There's a sorority on my campus called Delta Sigma Theta. One of their colors is crimson and they have an elephant as their symbol. I have a question. Is there any connection? Was Delta founded there?

YES! You are so astute!

In 1942, seven women known as the Carnations of Delta Sigma Theta established the sorority at Alabama.

The Greek Life mods should move this thread over to the DST forum. You should go ask the ladies of DST there.

And when we get initiated? The zoo gives each of us our own elephants to have forever and ever. Amen!:D

huh?

No and no.

1) I thought I was the only person who said "Forever and ever. Amen!"

2) Now, do you "adopt" the elephants and visit them at the zoo? Or do you get to actually keep them?

Your Carnations must be proud!

:eek::p

Are they nice over there? I am sometimes intimidated by too many girls from the same sorority hanging around each other.

:D

We only pay $1 per year to board them at the zoo, but yes they are ours to keep forever and ever. Amen. Our initiation ceremony takes place at the zoo and if your chapter does at least 40,000 hours of services each year? Your $1 is waived and the chapter gets a free trip to Africa.

And our jewel? The tusk of an elephant on barbed wire to display our real STRENGTH.

We put the EAN in MEAN. Don't go over there!!!

WOW!

Do Delta Beaux get the same privileges? If so, where do I sign up?

Delta Beaux are the tenders to the elephant poop only.

I'm glad that I saw your sorority under that line. I was going to start another thread about AKA, but I didn't want to be annoying by asking too many questions. I will just ask here. I noticed that the AKA symbol is an ivy leaf. Is AKA connected to any of the following by any chance?

Harvard
U of Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Cornell
Brown
Princeton
Yale

To heck with that, I'm happy being an Alpha/APO then. :)

Too intimidated to post in a message board? Then rush should be a cakewalk!

lol.. Yes. Alpha Kappa Alpha is connected to these universities.

You need to stick with me, this is what my doctoral disseration is on.

The founder of AKA was Madam CJ Walker, who had 8 daughters. Each daughter attended a different Ivy League college (or in some cases, their female counter part, like Radcliffe or Barnard). Well, Walker's daughters joined forces with their mom and established the first sorority for black women.

Incidentally, each daughter married an Alpha founder, except for the Yale daughter, who got stuck with a Sigma.

www.google.com

Then you enter a search term such as, oh, I don't know, AKA?

I heard the Alphas each get a pyramid in their name after initiation. No?


CTFU!!!!!

Yes and no.... post 1990, we got stuck with the Aztec pyramids and we have to share.

Which Sigma? And what is wrong with them?

I prefer not to use google, I rather talke to live people.

Wasn't it Bill Cosby's grandfather?

Sigmas and Alphas have a good-natured rivalry. It has to do with sharing the pyramids, I think.

Okay. go to ask.com and use the SearchLive! option.

Kind of an integrated search/chat thingy.

i can understand why you'd want to, but really with some of these questions, if you look around you are NOT going to get the answers you are looking for. for example, yes, it's probably a good idea to talk to greeks about their experience rather than relying on some of the weird stuff that comes up in a google search.

but a quick search of the term "ivy league" should explain to you why they're called the ivy league, just as a quick visit to the Alpha Kappa Alpha website would prove extremely enlightening, I'm sure, as to any connection with harvard, yale, princeton, etc.

trust me, you'll be doing yourself a favor.

This dialogue does not sound too realistic. I don't know much about greek orgs, but I'm almost positive they are connected to schools, not the zoo! I don't even think adopting elephants is legal.

What is Delta Beaux, Mr. I? Is that a greek and french organization hybrid? I have question. I didn't know there were such things as French letter societies. Tell me more. Where can I find info?

Hey CrimsonTide4.

I like you. You're funny. The end. :D

This IS a troll...you know? :o

It never fails! :p ;) :D

aw dang, and here i was thinking i'd be all nice and helpful. :o

lesson learned. i'll soon be on my way to being a hardned, experienced cynic like the rest of y'all ;) :p

/sits back to enjoy the show

Dionysus, is this you?

But at least we get our own eagles in APO. :D I visit mine at the Brookfield Zoo every week!

what about the poor sisters of theta? how do they work that out, having a kite as their symbol instead of an animal? are there like, kite zoos?

LMAO...I was actually expecting this sooner from you!

Ummm...hmmmm...NO!

I am mad that y'all didn't let the official Delta historian answer. :mad:

FutureGreek1, yes we were founded at the Crimson Tide. And yes that is where we got one of our colors and our official mascot. Good analyzing.

We were Alabama's second Black sorority and they welcomed us with open arms. The feeling has been mutual every since.

As for the AKAs, they too were founded at Alabama. But because they did not honor the school by using their color, some of them broke off and founded Delta.

Hopethis helps. And Mr. I--stay out of Delta business!!! :mad: :mad:

Sorry, Ma. :(

Crack kills!

Yes! AKA is only for people at Ivy Leauge schools....duh! You are a lot smarter than ther other people interested in greek life. The cone on GC afraid to ask us questions and they use stupid search engines for information.

Fees start at $10,000 since we can afford to go to Ivy leauge schools we can afford paying top dollar!

You will learn....I did!:rolleyes: Trolls...gotta luv em!

Maybe her internet access only comes to GC and not useful search engines that help people find information ALL of the time.;)

FOFLMAO!!! CrimsonTide4, I LUV YOU! (BTW, I believe ya'll occupied our old house on Bama's campus at one time). Roll Tide!:D

They made a special circumstance for Deltas and elephants. Otherwise, it is illegal.
You could try the Da Vinci Code for other French letter societies.