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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Why don't they go by Pi Kap?
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The legend is that Pi Kappa Phi got kicked off campus sometime in the early part of the century, and when they were recolonized, their nationals "punished" them by not allowing them to be called Pi Kap anymore, and they became Pi Phi instead. W&L was an all-male school at that time.
Again, total urban legend. (Another: ATO was kicked off campus, and never allowed to come back [even though it's the Alpha Chapter {effectively--I think it's actually VMI}] for derailing a train into a campus building.)
On the other hand, W&L's fraternity naming system is just slightly off kilter from the rest of the country. Pi Kappa Alpha is called PIKA not Pike, and LXA is just Lambda, not Lambda Chi. Additionally, Sigma Phi Epsilon was SPE before they closed, and Sig Ep after their recolonization.
It's a friggin' weird place. I miss it.