Do They Exist???

[thedeepblue]

Originally posted by chideltjen
Oh I have no idea if the movie was filmed at Auburn. But if you have seen it, Ewan's love interest supposedly goes to Auburn University and is in a sorority. And the sorority had a house with the letters on it. It could have been another school in Alabama instead, cuz that's where part of the movie takes place.

it was filmed at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL

[Little E]

Originally posted by KellyB369
That is sad because it does not make Chi Omega look good. I am sure there probably were a lot of problems with discrimination in the 60's with WGLO's, but that certainly is not a Chi O policy anymore (if it even was a true policy at that time).

There are a number of local sororities around the country that have similar histories. A former DG Chapter here, is now a local. It seems like a lot of chapters were ready to integrate and diversify long before the Nat'l Orgs were ready to make that step. It is proud part of Theta Pi Gamma's identity, and I totally resepect what those women did. To walk away in protest from a Nat'l Org is pretty huge.

I'd be suprised if Chi O would colonize at that college w/any group but that local. They are the original colony and that would kinda be rude to take a new group as a chapter, when the old groups exists. I know DG still writes Theta letters about affiliation.

[USCdelt]

Delta Tau Chi in Animal House is based on the fraternities of the 2 main writers (Delta Tau Delta, and I'm not sure of the other).

In Sorority Boys, KOK and DOG are based on the respective houses that the movie was filmed in at USC (Southern California), SAE and ADPi. If you know the Greek system here, it fits the stereotypes perfectly, though not the reality.

[Optimist Prime]

Hey, is there any Fraternity or Sorority called Sigma Phi Sigma? That is the name of the fraternity in the movie I'm movie I'm writing.

[deadbear80]

Originally posted by USCdelt
Delta Tau Chi in Animal House is based on the fraternities of the 2 main writers (Delta Tau Delta, and I'm not sure of the other).

In Sorority Boys, KOK and DOG are based on the respective houses that the movie was filmed in at USC (Southern California), SAE and ADPi. If you know the Greek system here, it fits the stereotypes perfectly, though not the reality.

Actually, Harold Ramis, one of the writers of the movie, was a Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) at Washington University in St. Louis. The movie was based off of his experiences at school, as well as the other writer's (who went to Dartmouth). I don't know where the 'Chi' comes from in Delta Tau Chi....if you're right that the other fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.

[XOMichelle]

Originally posted by Little E
There are a number of local sororities around the country that have similar histories. A former DG Chapter here, is now a local. It seems like a lot of chapters were ready to integrate and diversify long before the Nat'l Orgs were ready to make that step. It is proud part of Theta Pi Gamma's identity, and I totally resepect what those women did. To walk away in protest from a Nat'l Org is pretty huge.

I was very proud of those women when I read their history. It's sad that they aren't Chi O's, but they did the right thing. I wish I could call them sisters!

[TSteven]

Originally posted by deadbear80
Actually, Harold Ramis, one of the writers of the movie, was a Zeta Beta Tau (ZBT) at Washington University in St. Louis. The movie was based off of his experiences at school, as well as the other writer's (who went to Dartmouth). I don't know where the 'Chi' comes from in Delta Tau Chi....if you're right that the other fraternity was Delta Tau Delta.

http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/trivia.htm

Co-screenwriter Chris Miller based the National Lampoon short stories that gave rise to the film on his experiences in a fraternity at Dartmouth, from which he graduated in 1962:

"I was at Dartmouth in the early sixties and I belonged to the outlaw fraternity on campus at that time (Alpha Delta Phi). I always said that one day I was going to write the story of that experience. So, around 1974 or so, I started writing it as a novel and then the novel got cut up into chunks, which became short stories that ran in the Lampoon. The stories were documentary. They were cinema verite. When the script was written, the actual incidents that the two stories were about were the fraternity initiation that I underwent (The Night of the Seven Fires) and the experience I called Pinto's First Lay.

http://www.nationallampoon.com/flash...house/ah1.html

"I was Pinto in my fraternity. That was my name. In the movie, I think that Pinto is me as a pledge and Boon is me as a senior. All the other guys are guys that are so archetypal that everybody knows them. Everybody had friends like those other guys.

"I think the parts of the movie that were most true to my life were the road trip and what goes on during the road trip. In fact, the guy who was the original guy who tried to get a date with the dead girl was at the premiere. When the incident came on, he stood up and raised his hands in the air just like Rocky."

Now living in Venice, California, Miller said at the film's 25th Anniversary Reunion that he's writing a prequel to the movie. "We can't exactly do a sequel with the death of John Belushi," he said.

[Measi]

Finally, my favorite made-up fraternity, Lambda Lambda Lambda does not exist.

Perhaps not, but the geeks in my circle of friends (including me) often joke that we're an unaffiliated chapter anyway.

~ Mel.

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by TSteven
http://www.acmewebpages.com/animal/trivia.htm ...

The Night of the Seven Fires

If you click on this link and find the segment TSteven quoted, you'll find a link to The Night of the Seven Fires.

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

The movie "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag" had: "Chi Theta"

A MadTV skit had, "Phi Kappa" when trying to advertise Mother Teresa Beer

[CASIGKAP]

There was a great skit done on I think SNL. It has a sorority by the name of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

[abaici]

Originally posted by CASIGKAP
There was a great skit done on I think SNL. It has a sorority by the name of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

It was Mad TV.

SNL had the Tri-Delt sketch.

"Delta, Delta, Delta...can I help you, help you, help you?"

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Last night I seen "Alpha Omega Pi" on an Axe commericial.

Later on Comedy Central's, "Shorties Watching Shorties" they had some cartoon slut wearing Sigma Kappa letters. I know Sigmas are real but dag on, they couldn't even make up a damn name instead??

[piphiangel1185]

Delta Iota Kappa (aka DIK......) from VanWilder.

At the end of Animal House, the greek letters DTX are on the house and the T falls off, leaving just DX (Delta Chi) which is a real fraternity. Any coincidence?

[Measi]

Originally posted by CASIGKAP
There was a great skit done on I think SNL. It has a sorority by the name of Kappa Kappa Kappa.

And Tri-Kappa does exist.

http://www.trikappa.org/