I know this will only get a few responses (cause there aren't many of us Canadians hanging around this site, unfortuantely), but I became a memeber of Gamma Phi at the University of Toronto back in 1996 and while I've been inactive for a year, I'm finding myself, by reading other posts on this site, like I'm from a completely different world. If any other Canadians are out there, can you just tell me if I'm living in a hole, or if there are a lot of things that are just done differently or that we have different words for.
For example, I've figured out by reading plenty of posts, that a line is your pledge class. We just call it pledge class and I had never heard the term line before reading posts on GC. We (at least in my chapter) don't even know our line number. I don't think we ever knew it was important to know. Also the term sands, is that universal in states for pledge mates? We, again, just call them members of our pledge class, sometimes, pledge sisters.
GLO. We're members of National (i guess international) panhallenic up here. This is a place where I'm still confused. What are all the different letters that keep appearing refering to different orgs in the States. Forgive me if I sound incredibly ignorant, but I was very active for 4 years and yet I still feel like a neo reading all these posts. I just think that there are terms that didn't matriculate up here when our houses were founded. We've been on U of T's campus (Gamma Phi has) since 1919, so it's not like we're a new chapter up here.
I'm just curious to know if any other Canadians have felt the same things as I have, or if it's just unique to my silly campus.
I went on RLC in Cleavland a couple of years ago and partied with a bunch of the girls from our chapter at Michigan state and got alone really well with them. I didn't feel like I was from some alien planet also called Gamma Phi. So getting past this little lingo hurdle is more out of confusion than out of an effort to fit in. If that makes sense.
Is a term like 'sands' used by all houses, or is it just some? I get the feeling 'line' is pretty much used by everyone....I feel so ignorant asking these questions, but I feel like it's better to ask these questions and get answers than live in my ignorance
Thanks,
Leslie
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[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited February 19, 2001).]
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