Rho Chi name change

carnation · #1 01-08-2002, 04:19 PM

I was just reading my daughter's To Dragma and it said that because there's a national pharmacy honorary named Rho Chi that has requested it, NPC is now asking that colleges quit using the term "Rho Chi" and use "recruitment counselor". Has anyone else heard about this?

dzrose93 · #2 01-08-2002, 04:25 PM

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Originally posted by carnation
I was just reading my daughter's To Dragma and it said that because there's a national pharmacy honorary named Rho Chi that has requested it, NPC is now asking that colleges quit using the term "Rho Chi" and use "recruitment counselor". Has anyone else heard about this?

Oh, for the love of Pete, do we have to be 200% PC all the time? Does someone HONESTLY think that a rushee is going to get confused and think that her Rho Chi is taking her to a pharmacy party, or that an honors pharmacy student will accidentally wind up at a Rush function? NPC needs to stand up for itself for ONCE. Geez.

I guarantee that NPC sororities have been on campus a helluva lot longer than the Rho Chi honor society.

(small break while dzrose93 does some internet research)

Yep, just as I suspected... Panhellenic came about in 1902, and the pharmacy society started 20 years later in 1922.

carnation · #3 01-08-2002, 04:30 PM

LOL!!!

Angels&Arrows · #4 01-08-2002, 04:34 PM

OMG!!! dzrose93.. you have me ROFLMAO!!!!!! I am about in tears!

Peaches-n-Cream · #5 01-08-2002, 04:38 PM

I don't see how people can be confused between the two. There are two different Delta Phi Epsilons one is my sorority and the other is a coed professional foreign service group. There is probably more confusion in this case than with Rho Chi.

The1calledTKE · #6 01-08-2002, 04:44 PM

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Originally posted by Cream
I don't see how people can be confused between the two. There are two different Delta Phi Epsilons one is my sorority and the other is a coed professional foreign service group. There is probably more confusion in this case than with Rho Chi.

Which one was first?

AZ-AlphaXi · #7 01-08-2002, 04:47 PM

the following is an article from the Greek Life newsletter from New Mexico State University - dated 11/19/2001

Say 'Goodbye' to Rho Chi

NPC requests Panhellenic colleges use term Recruitment Counselor

The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is asking colleges that use the term Rho Chi during recruitment to use the title Recruitment Counselor in its place.

Executive Vice President of the Rho Chi Society national office Wayne Pittman contacted the National Panhellenic with his concern about the use of the term Rho Chi.

The Rho Chi Society, established in 1922, is an academic honor society for pharmacy students.

NPC said Pittman called to their attention the fact that confusion has developed between Panhellenic Rho Chis and Rho Chi Society members.

"Out of respect for the Rho Chi Society and in order to eliminate any potential confusion between Panhellenic Rho Chis and the Rho Chi Society, if you currently use the term Rho Chi to describe our recruitment counselors, NPC is requesting that you stop this practice," NPC requested in a memo sent to college Panhellenics on November 6.

NPC Area Advisor for Arizona and New Mexico, Barbara Probst, said she thinks it is "perfectly acceptable" for the Rho Chi Society to request the term Rho Chi be removed from recruitment.

Probst said it has become convenient to use the term Rho Chi, but "we are in fact Recruitment Counselors."

The Rho Chi Society national office is located at the University of North Carolina and currently has 77 active Rho Chi chapters.

NPC said they understand the title change may require time to phase out the use of the term, but asks that each college Panhellenic "demonstrate their best efforts to ensure that this phase out will happen as soon as possible."

The1calledTKE · #8 01-08-2002, 04:52 PM

Thats crazy. I doubt it will never be fazed out completely. The use of the term pledge is still very common even though people are suppose to use the terms new members or associate members.

dzrose93 · #9 01-08-2002, 04:57 PM

Next thing you know, the Secret Society of Sporting Recruiters-turned-Guidance Counselors is going to rise up and protest the use of the term "recruitment counselor." What a crock of s***.

Why don't we just get rid of every rush term ever conceived? Just wipe them off the books completely. That appears to be where we're heading. Who cares about tradition and history anyway?

aopirose · #10 01-08-2002, 05:08 PM

The sorority came first.

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Originally posted by zntke711
Which one was first?

I agree that the Rho Chi "issue" is crazy. I don't understand how anyone could get the two confused for more than a minute. They are probably going to do away with the NPC Rho Chi dangles too.

dzrose93 · #11 01-08-2002, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by aopirose
The sorority came first.

I agree that the Rho Chi "issue" is crazy. I don't understand how anyone could get the two confused for more than a minute. They are probably going to do away with the NPC Rho Chi dangles too.

I'd love to see NPC tell the Rho Chi Society to change ITS name. Bet that would have gone over well.

Why can't they just be the National Pharmacy Honors Society? What's wrong with that title? Not fancy enough?

Peaches-n-Cream · #12 01-08-2002, 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by zntke711

Which one was first?

We were! Delta Phi Epsilon International Sorority was founded on March 17, 1917 at NYU.
Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Fraternity was founded on January 25, 1920, at Georgetown University. Their sorority was founded in the 1970's. This is according to their website.

It was kind of weird when I first searched Delta Phi Epsilon, and I started to read about my Brothers!

KarenC725 · #13 01-08-2002, 05:36 PM

You've got to be kidding! That would be like the Society of Automotive Engineers (which calls itself SAE) asking the fraternity to change its abbreviation. I was never confused with Rho Chi. Do they not understand that a rush rho chi is not a specific, all time entity? Get a grip.

AlphaChiGirl · #14 01-08-2002, 06:58 PM

I don't see why it's such a big deal. Most people I know don't even use the term "Rho Chi" (it could be because we only have 2 per Recruitment). Although the NPC came about before 1922, when did we start using the term "Rho Chi"?

I just feel like there are more things to complain about. At least we still HAVE Recruitment Counselors.

amycat412 · #15 01-08-2002, 07:00 PM

They were Rush Counselors when I was in school... Rho Chi was not widely used.