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Originally Posted by twinkle555
Care to give us all a run down of your org? I would like to see the similarities you speak of  |
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.
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Originally Posted by ZTAMich
This movie depicts a sorority called “Zeta Alpha Zeta” and refers to its members as “Zetas” and its facility as the “Zeta House.” The chapter house shown in the movie has the word “ZETA” above the door in turquoise, one of the official colors of the Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity.
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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).
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Originally Posted by ZTAMich
The Fraternity is the exclusive owner of the registered trademarks Zeta Tau Alpha and the Greek letters ZTA, and has been consistently using the term Zeta and Zetas to conduct business for nearly 100 years. The Fraternity believes that the use of “ZETA” in the film is improper and confusingly similar to ZTA. Zeta Tau Alpha is working with legal counsel to explore its options.
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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:
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Originally Posted by texas*princess
it's TV!!! Who cares.
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