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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
One year when I was a rush advisor a girl came through whose name did not match up with the official list Panhellenic generated. We asked the Greek Life director, who had to hunt the girl down. Come to find out she had enrolled under her official name, but put her nickname on her name tag. All the sororities were confused and until it was resolved, it caused everyone a lot of aggravation.
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When I was a rho chi (yes, I was a rho chi, not a sigma rho chi or a rho gamma or whatever they're calling them these days
), we had two particular girls come through rush. They were both Asian. It's not uncommon for Asians who come to the USA to choose a more American name to go by. So we had a PNM named, let's say Fang-hua Chen (I guess that would really be Chen Fang-hua, but I digress). She was registered for rush as Fang-hua Chen, but she went by Frances Chen. Trouble is, there was also a PNM whose legal name was Frances Chen. Well, Fang-hua loved sorority XYZ, made a good impression, and, according to XYZ's president, should have been invited back ... except the sorority confused her with Frances Chen, who was not being invited back, so Fang-hua opened her invite list and didn't see XYZ on it. Fortunately, XYZ sorted out the situation. Lucky me - I was Fang-hua's rho chi and I got to explain the situation. :/ Anyway, Fang-hua ended up going to XYZ's pref and joining them.
So, yes ... that's my long-winded way of saying that consistency is key. "Hi, I'm Fang-hua, but I prefer to go by Frances."
(Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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