Several years ago a girl came to work at my office and we started talking about our sorority affiliations. She was furious because I called myself a Zeta. Huh? She said that her group was the original Zetas and she didn't understand why we "stole" that just like everything else had been stolen from them. WTF?
I very politely told her that since ZTA had been around for almost 100 years (at that time), we probably weren't going to change how we referred to ourselves. She was not real happy to hear that. I guess there wasn't a ZTA chapter on their campus and her group was the "Zetas" there? On my campus, they called themselves ZPhiB so that is how I've always referred to them, too.
Every other Zeta Phi Beta I've met has been super nice so her rant really took me by surprise.
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