Graduation Stoles - Page 2

ztafairy · #16 02-21-2001, 04:58 PM

Equeen, we have Greek stoles at our school. Any Greek member can wear them when they graduate. They have the greek alphabet on them in our school colors. We don't have a different stole for each sorority and fraternity. That would be cool though. It's just to show everyone how proud we are to be Greek. Along with that, it's also nice to wear something on the robe that makes me look important. Hee, hee!

lifesaver · #17 02-21-2001, 10:06 PM

I have the technical info on this somewhere...I did ia paper on this a few years ago. In brief, BA candidates (what you are called until you actually are conferred the degree)wear the traditional gown (robe), Masters candidates wear the traditional gown, but with an extra length of fabric hanging on the sleeves and doctoral candidates are distinguished by three stripes of equal length and size on the sleeve, usually of velvet. As for colors, each different major at a university has its own color (there are like 75 of them at my univ) and for the masters and doctoral candidates the degree fields color is accentuated by the university's colors. I will try to find more info from my paper.

bcde · #18 02-22-2001, 12:55 PM

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Originally posted by Eclipse:
Brooklineu & others,
The stoles that 12dn94dst displayed are actually Americanized versions of traditional Kente cloth from the Ashante (or is it Asante? African scholars help me out!) Nation of Ghana. If I am remembering my history correctly, the cloths are hand woven (the original ones, I'm sure a lot of the ones here are mass produced and marketed). The different weaves have different meanings based on the situation that you would wear it, your place in society, and, I think, special atributes about you (signifying bravery, for instance.) I also think these cloths were reserved for royal families and special high ranking officials. The sorority or fraternity are not 'authentic' kente cloth, but copies of them.

You are correct. I have seen it ashante, asante, and ashanti. An excellent site is at: http://www.ashanti.com.au/ check it out.

CutiePie2000 · #19 02-23-2001, 04:40 PM

You are correct. I have seen it ashante, asante, and ashanti.
Ah! I see...I didn't realize there were different variations of spelling (because of how it's pronounced in the native tribal language, and then trying to convey that phonetically in English).

Speaking of Africa, this is kind of funny. Most of us have seen "The Lion King" and know the song "Hakuna Matata"....(how it means "no worries"...blah blah). Anyhow, when I was in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, I asked a Zimbabwean "What does Hakuna Matata mean?" just to see what he would say. He stated laughing and he said, "It means 'don't worry about it'...how did you find this out? It's a Shona expression". So I guess Disney did do some legitimate research!

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Eclipse · #20 02-23-2001, 08:25 PM

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Originally posted by bcde:
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You are correct. I have seen it ashante, asante, and ashanti.
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Thanks....i guess I got 2 out of 3, huh?

Rain Man · #21 05-03-2002, 10:07 AM

I must've went to 4 or 5 Africentric shops in Columbus, and NONE of them have a "Class of 2002" graduation stole. They only have "Class of 2001"! I have worn kente stoles at every college graduation I have been in (Class of '94, Class of '97), and I am not passing up the opportunity to wear one to receive my third degree.

If any Columbus folx can help me out, please do so quickly. I graduate next Friday (5/11/02).

dzsaigirl · #22 05-03-2002, 11:27 AM

Hey, if you really graduate on 5/11/02, then you had better show up on Saturday, not Friday!

I am not wearing a stole. I am decorating my hat. The caps and gowns here are rented and returned at the end of graduation, so I am going to put DZ in two sided tape on my cap and then attach pink and green rhinestones (from the craft store) to the tape. That way, I can take it off and they won't get mad.

GreekLetterGirl · #23 05-03-2002, 12:41 PM

dzsaigirl
what a cute Idea with the rhinestones and everything... happy early graduation.. may the luck of the world be with you in all you do... and to all the other graduates of 2002 Congrates !!! the world is at your feet

Rain Man · #24 05-03-2002, 12:46 PM

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Originally posted by dzsaigirl
Hey, if you really graduate on 5/11/02, then you had better show up on Saturday, not Friday!

I am not wearing a stole. I am decorating my hat. The caps and gowns here are rented and returned at the end of graduation, so I am going to put DZ in two sided tape on my cap and then attach pink and green rhinestones (from the craft store) to the tape. That way, I can take it off and they won't get mad.

I am desparate to the point that I am seriously considering buying a Class of 2001 stole and playing like I finished in December!

RM

Eirene_DGP · #25 05-03-2002, 02:01 PM

Our org. wears graduation stoles, basically typical sorority colors and our greek letters. For some reason at our school only NPHC and our other chartered MCGLO wear them. NPC and IFC do not wear stoles. I thought maybe it was a cultural thing.

FuzzieAlum · #26 05-03-2002, 02:16 PM

I don't think my schoool had any rules about what you could or couldn't wear with your (plain black undergrad) robe. The only stoles or cords we wore, though, were from honor societies - no one wore fraternity or sorority stoles.

Our undergrads, too, all wore the same color robes; only the masters and PhD candidates wore different colors. But I loved seeing the profs in their robes! Tartan ones, bright pink ones ... we tried to guess where they were all from.

You can see my sister Mindy here decked out in all her cords:
http://www.geocities.com/axdtm/calendar.html.

brownsugakdphi · #27 05-05-2002, 09:38 PM

Hey Equeen
They do make personalized greek stoles with your sorority/fraternity's colors and letters... they run about twenty dollars and they have it mostly for minority oriented greek organizations and some panhell and ifc greek orgs... I hope that helps, there is a website... but I can't seem to find it right now.... On the website they don't look that appealing,but I've seen people wear them at graduation here and they look really good since no one else has them, people really pay attention to you... It's a great gift for the graduate, especially if you don't know what else to get them...
the standard stole has the colors of the organization and the greek letters. for extra cost you can have it personalized with just about anything, i.e. chapter, nickname, year of graduation... it's a good idea since it will last a lifetime...

brownsugakdphi · #28 05-05-2002, 09:45 PM

here's the link
http://cultura.midwesttradegroup.com/clase2001a.html

LexiKD · #29 05-05-2002, 11:39 PM

My mother got one made for me. ECU gets large yellow and purple ones made with all Greek letters on them, and I wasn't too impressed.

Mine is Green with white KD on one side and my name/class on the other. When my little graduates I will get her name and class on it and she will pass it down from there...

Glitter650 · #30 05-06-2002, 02:26 AM

At my school we have a graduation fair every year and the people who sell invitations, rings, the fancy frames for your degree, and people who sell stoles all come sit in front of the book store and sell their wears. You can choose what color you want your stole to be and what color embroidery you want and everything it's not really a tradition to have them in our soror, but I know a few girls have over the years... I know I want one.. they are cool... I think we have different color tassels to denote what program your graudating from rather than using a collar or anything like that to tell the different departments apart... .