On Coming Chapter - Rush Shirts

KSigFounder · #1 12-21-2007, 03:27 PM

Hey guys, my Fraternity is coming onto campus as a colony next semester and we're going to be a hearing and deaf chapter, we need a dynamite rush shirt that will catch everyones eyes and stay in the back of their minds.

Mooch279 · #2 12-21-2007, 03:41 PM

How about a picture of the three monkeys (Hear,See,Speak no evil) and below them say "It just makes sense.....Rush Kappa Sig'

TSteven · #3 12-21-2007, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by KSigFounder

Hey guys, my Fraternity is coming onto campus as a colony next semester and we're going to be a hearing and deaf chapter, we need a dynamite rush shirt that will catch everyones eyes and stay in the back of their minds.

Would you please provide some details/clarification? Specially, what do you mean by "we're going to be a hearing and deaf chapter"? Also, are y'all colonizing at Gallaudet University? A colony of Kappa Sigma?

KSigFounder · #4 12-21-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TSteven

Would you please provide some details/clarification? Specially, what do you mean by "we're going to be a hearing and deaf chapter"? Also, are y'all colonizing at Gallaudet University? A colony of Kappa Sigma?

Well there guys that are joining that are hearing, and there are guys that are deaf. We actually have brothers that are here that are from RIT and gallaudet. Chris Peters, Philip Olivan, Jin Pae, Andrew Aguilara.

Senusret I · #5 12-21-2007, 04:21 PM

Not that it's my business, but I am curious as to the location of this chapter and how it can involve men from two different states.

KSigFounder · #6 12-21-2007, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Not that it's my business, but I am curious as to the location of this chapter and how it can involve men from two different states.

California State University Northridge, the guys from RIT and Gaulludet had transfered to CSUN.

Senusret I · #7 12-21-2007, 05:38 PM

Okay makes sense -- thank you!

For anyone else who was confused, Cal State Northridge has a Deaf Studies program.

Tom Earp · #8 12-21-2007, 07:11 PM

Awesome for You and your new members!

The very best of luck for your new group of Men!

TSteven · #9 12-21-2007, 08:59 PM

Thanks everyone for the clarification. I'm up to speed now.

KSigFounder - Have you asked any of your hearing impaired members for suggestions? And regardless of what y'all come up with, I would be sure to pass it by all members to be safe. It wouldn't be good PR to start a colony with controversy right off the bat.

KSigFounder · #10 12-22-2007, 06:11 AM

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Thanks everyone for the clarification. I'm up to speed now.

KSigFounder - Have you asked any of your hearing impaired members for suggestions? And regardless of what y'all come up with, I would be sure to pass it by all members to be safe. It wouldn't be good PR to start a colony with controversy right off the bat.

for the record it's deaf, not hearing impaired, the deaf find that term offensive... hearing impaired inclines that their hearing could be fixed...

and yes i've talked to them, they're brainstorming, but i want to show them some examples of other rush shirts.

TSteven · #11 12-23-2007, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by KSigFounder

for the record it's deaf, not hearing impaired, the deaf find that term offensive... hearing impaired inclines that their hearing could be fixed...

and yes i've talked to them, they're brainstorming, but i want to show them some examples of other rush shirts.

For what it is worth, not all deaf people find hearing impaired offensive. One of my best friends - who is deaf - prefers hearing impaired.

VandalSquirrel · #12 12-22-2007, 04:06 PM

It could be a graphics issue, but what about having Kappa Sigma also spelled out with hands in Sign Language showing the letters that correspond to the English equivalents of Kappa Sigma? You could put your message ex: "Rush Kappa Sigma Colony 2008 CSUN" and have the corresponding message in sign language on the other side.

Even though I'm not your target audience, I am a HUGE FAN of when chapters use their own creativity and spirit to create promotional items instead of using a stock image or a graphic someone else designed. You have something unique, a deaf and hearing chapter, and definitely advertise that!

Oh and a friend offered this suggestion:
We're here, some of us can hear, others are deaf, but we're all DEF!

I took away their access to 90's hip-hop for a day for their use of def while abusing homonyms.

PhiGam · #13 12-23-2007, 10:04 PM

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I never saw American Gangster, but I think that's what this is from.

And Sweetwater Brewing Co.

That bottom one is AWESOME. Our semi formal shirts looked like Newcastle labels but that is one of the nicest rush shirts I've ever seen.

SthrnZeta · #14 12-27-2007, 04:57 PM

You just said that a chapter gets a free pass for a few years - if I'm so "clueless," then please tell me what that means to you. It sounds like the rules of your org don't apply to them and they get to do whatever they want and that sure sounds like to me, that they can potentially damage the so great reputation that you say FIJI has. Oh, I'm sorry, Phi Gam since FIJI "sounds goofy"

ETA: I'm not the only one who feels that people wearing paraphenalia of an org represent the whole group when they do. Which explains why some say not to drink in letters, etc. Like I said, I would think you would hold your brothers to a higher standard then to let them slide just because they're rebuilding. DTD recolonized at UGA and their standards were even higher than before. Sounds like you're the one who's clueless.

PhiGam · #15 12-28-2007, 03:22 AM

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You just said that a chapter gets a free pass for a few years - if I'm so "clueless," then please tell me what that means to you.

It means that they are currently not as good as I would like them to be. They are making strides though and with time I think that they will come around.

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It sounds like the rules of your org don't apply to them and they get to do whatever they want and that sure sounds like to me, that they can potentially damage the so great reputation that you say FIJI has. Oh, I'm sorry, Phi Gam since FIJI "sounds goofy"

Hardly. I'm not talking about anything serious here, just the way they are looked at on campus.

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ETA: I'm not the only one who feels that people wearing paraphenalia of an org represent the whole group when they do. Which explains why some say not to drink in letters, etc. Like I said, I would think you would hold your brothers to a higher standard then to let them slide just because they're rebuilding. DTD recolonized at UGA and their standards were even higher than before. Sounds like you're the one who's clueless.

Another idiotic comment, I am not saying that they can go roofie girls or burn down the student union, just that they don't have a whole lot of respect on campus there right now. There is no way that you could possibly be in a top tier southern sorority and NOT know what I'm talking about.