chants/calls...help!

[sairose]

So here's the deal. Most music greeks have a call, or at least a chapter call. Like the Phi Mu Alpha chapter here does:

1 member: PHI MU....
All: ALPHA!!!!
1 member: DOUBLE O.... (their chapter is Omicron Omega)
All: YOU KNOW!

But with a name like Sigma Alpha Iota, and a chapter name like Epsilon Gamma, haha, how do you work THAT many syllables into one chant/call?

Anyone creative enough to think up something? My chapter has tried to come up with something for the last few years, and I've even talked to other sisters around the country. No luck.

Anyone???

[NewBee]

I hope someone helps you with the chants however, why do you need to "come up with" a call. For my limited knowledge, the sororities that have calls, have so for a reason that is special and private to them. Its not something that they do just to sound cool. But I could be wrong...

[sairose]

Well the other music GLOs on my campus have calls that they came up with years ago. Not nationally, but just here. I don't think it would be disrespectful to have one; but if I am wrong someone please correct me.

[NewBee]

Originally posted by sairose
Well the other music GLOs on my campus have calls that they came up with years ago. Not nationally, but just here. I don't think it would be disrespectful to have one; but if I am wrong someone please correct me.

I am not saying its disrespectful. I am just saying that it seems ...

well fake. Its like if the other sororities jump off a cliff, would your sorority do it as well? All I am saying is wouldn't it mean something more to your org if you came up with a call with your sorority sisters, instead of on Greek Chat, a public website.

If I am wrong, I apologize in advance. But regardless, whether on a national or local level, it just seems like a conversation you should have with your chapter instead of over the internet. But I hope you find what you are looking for.

[GeekyPenguin]

Are you just looking for chants? I've never heard anybody use a call, that's why I'm curious. I would try contacting a few other SAI chapters and asking them.

[Zetagymnast]

Just to clarify what a call is... A call is something that the members do to identify themselves when they see each other. Yes, the meaning is private to members only. It may be something you have to do among yourself. Some example of call are different sounds, greek letters, acromyms, etc.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Zetagymnast
Just to clarify what a call is... A call is something that the members do to identify themselves when they see each other. Yes, the meaning is private to members only. It may be something you have to do among yourself. Some example of call are different sounds, greek letters, acromyms, etc.

Well right - but there's other interpretations. Obviously an AKA yelling "SKEEEEE-WEEE" is doing their call, but there's more private calls and recognition methods.

[Zetagymnast]

I agree...different sororities and fraternities have different ways of doing their calls. As the other examples I gave. Black Sororities and Fraternities might be different from others from other backgrouds it all depends. I am in a predominatly Black sorority so we have a call that is somewhat private. Most Black ones have calls from recognition purposes only.

[sairose]

Originally posted by Zetagymnast
Just to clarify what a call is... A call is something that the members do to identify themselves when they see each other. Yes, the meaning is private to members only. It may be something you have to do among yourself. Some example of call are different sounds, greek letters, acromyms, etc.

OK then maybe what I'm referring to isn't quite a call. See, here, TBS has a thing where one member will yell "TAU BETA..." and everyone else answers "SIGMA!!!" And Phi Mu Alpha has one where one brother yells "PHI MU...." and the brothers all yell "ALPHA!" and then one yells "DOUBLE O"(their chapter is Omicron Omega) and everyone else yells "YOU KNOW!". I guess maybe that's not quite the same kind of call.

[sairose]

Originally posted by NewBee
I am not saying its disrespectful. I am just saying that it seems ...

well fake. Its like if the other sororities jump off a cliff, would your sorority do it as well? All I am saying is wouldn't it mean something more to your org if you came up with a call with your sorority sisters, instead of on Greek Chat, a public website.

If I am wrong, I apologize in advance. But regardless, whether on a national or local level, it just seems like a conversation you should have with your chapter instead of over the internet. But I hope you find what you are looking for.

Well here's the thing. Our chapter has never been able to think of one, and we've talked to other chapters and people have talked about it before like at province weekend...and so it's not like I'm turning here INSTEAD of sisters.

I don't understand why me and my sisters are "fake" just because we want something fun to add to our sisterhood. If you're saying we're fake then technically all GLOs would be fake, because most are patterned after another by how they function. Don't all(or most) GLOs have crests? Symbols? Songs? Pins? Etc etc? The first group to have all that stuff patterned all the GLOs to come. So you tell me how wanting something another sorority/fraternity has is being "fake".

[NewBee]

Originally posted by sairose
Well here's the thing. Our chapter has never been able to think of one, and we've talked to other chapters and people have talked about it before like at province weekend...and so it's not like I'm turning here INSTEAD of sisters.

I don't understand why me and my sisters are "fake" just because we want something fun to add to our sisterhood. If you're saying we're fake then technically all GLOs would be fake, because most are patterned after another by how they function. Don't all(or most) GLOs have crests? Symbols? Songs? Pins? Etc etc? The first group to have all that stuff patterned all the GLOs to come. So you tell me how wanting something another sorority/fraternity has is being "fake".

You misunderstood me. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. I didnt say you are fake, I said it seems fake not saying you and your sisters are or aren't that, it's just how it appears. But who cares what I think? Anyway, of course GLOs copy off each other, but all of that stuff you named, the crests, symbols, songs, etc, they all have a meaning behind them. When people start new orgs, they should do it with a purpose, or when old orgs adapt new traditions, they should do it with a purpose, and not just because everyone else is doing it, because I am sure those orgs have a reason for why they are doing it...

[NewBee]

Originally posted by sairose
OK then maybe what I'm referring to isn't quite a call. See, here, TBS has a thing where one member will yell "TAU BETA..." and everyone else answers "SIGMA!!!" And Phi Mu Alpha has one where one brother yells "PHI MU...." and the brothers all yell "ALPHA!" and then one yells "DOUBLE O"(their chapter is Omicron Omega) and everyone else yells "YOU KNOW!". I guess maybe that's not quite the same kind of call.

Those sound like calls to me.

[gamma_girl52]

Not to butt in but SAI DOES have a sorority call...I've heard it before. They also have a handsign as well.

[Zetagymnast]

Originally posted by sairose
OK then maybe what I'm referring to isn't quite a call. See, here, TBS has a thing where one member will yell "TAU BETA..." and everyone else answers "SIGMA!!!" And Phi Mu Alpha has one where one brother yells "PHI MU...." and the brothers all yell "ALPHA!" and then one yells "DOUBLE O"(their chapter is Omicron Omega) and everyone else yells "YOU KNOW!". I guess maybe that's not quite the same kind of call.

That actutally is a call. For example, my letters are Zeta Lambda Psi and when I see one of my sister I say Zzzzzzzz, and the sister responds Psiiiiiiiiiiii. This is what is called a letter call. They are very popular as you can see in the examples you gave. Another example is are my brothers, their letters are Zeta Alpha Gamma Psi and their call is Z-psi and another brother responds Go Psi!! Just a example of letter calls. They are also secret calls which the meaning are known to members only but our call is obvious because of our letters. The sum things up calling out letters is a call.

[sairose]

Originally posted by gamma_girl52
Not to butt in but SAI DOES have a sorority call...I've heard it before. They also have a handsign as well.

Wow, I've never heard/seen other one! Could you fill me in?