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Originally posted by radioZTA
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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This story is a shame......there are 24 Greek letters and hundreds of Greek Lettered Organizations. It's a shame that one person couldn't understand that there can be one nickname for two different orgs.....sheesh. I certainly wouldn't trip if an NIC fraternity called themselves the Alphas.....it's a coincidence, not like they are stealing our symbols and colors.
FYI, I've always known them as "The Zetas" primarily, "ZPhiB" second.