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[epchick]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Her pledge education included things like memorizing the letters of the greek alphabet (sorry...how important is that really?!)

Are you kidding me? Its EXTREMELY important!! I am a firm believer that if your greek, you should know the greek alphabet. If you were to look at someone's letters, do you really just want to stare and say "what are those letters?" I know I wouldn't.

[tld221]

Originally Posted by epchick

Are you kidding me? Its EXTREMELY important!! I am a firm believer that if your greek, you should know the greek alphabet. If you were to look at someone's letters, do you really just want to stare and say "what are those letters?" I know I wouldn't.

it really is embarassing. its not something you will get quizzed on formally, but you need to know that when you meet other greeks! i have 2 stories (and this is probably more the idiocy of the people involved, but still the moral being: learn your effing greek alphabet):

1. a neo of another sorority asked me what my letters read. she said something like "i know what the Sigma is, but what are you, Sigma Something Pi?" without thinking, i blurted, "what the hell kinda process did you have, you dont know your greek alphabet?" and her response was "yeah... alpha, ______, _______, _______, omega" (i dont wanna call out the org)

2. two girls (dont know which org) approached a Kappa and asked him if his "Psi" was an "upsilon" or an "epsilon." he kinda gave them a "WTF" look and then they said, "so which letter stands for Nupe?"



of course, many points i can make from this tomfoolery... greek alphabet is something you need to know from the jump. its just so embarassing when you can't identify other chapters, let alone other organizations. i was embarassed to answer them (cause that answer that girl in #1 gave me, while cutesy, was BS and her chapter members should be ashamed, and in #2, well them girls just made an @ss of themselves - those arent questions you should be asking if you are greek).

[cuteASAbug]

If you can't learn the greek alphabet, then you shouldn't even be in college to begin with. You learn half of it in high school math and science classes.

[Thetagirl218]

Its VERY important to learn the Greek Alphabet....enough said....

[AKA_Monet]

Long time ago, before we became members, we were required to do all kinds of community service work.

Aside from that we had to know information about our organization before we walked into the Rush door. If we did not have basic "website" information, we were not admitted and that is B.C. (Before Computers).

So EXCUSES are lax.

How can we make different members these days other than ignorance is no excuse for not following the law... If this is your organization and the work is required, how will you best represent it? I understand there is difficulty and young people have classes, but, most of our organizations were founded by undergraduates that devoted to changes that needed to be made on their respective university/colleges.

What do we want to become? What does lifelong membership look like?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Thetagirl218

Its VERY important to learn the Greek Alphabet.

Agreed. It's just important for them to be able to recognize other greek groups on campus without sounding like idiots.

[AOII Angel]

Y'all are so funny! I don't think you have to know the entire greek alphabet to be a good greek member! We all could easily read the names of other organizations on campus even though the alphabet was not included in our new member education manual. Most greek letters used in GLOs are recognizable to educated people. Do I think that NMs should wait an extra week for initiation so they can learn the greek alphabet? No...I think that's absurd! Does it have anything to do with sisterhood? Absolutely not! Can you give me any other reason that new members should learn the greek alphabet? Is there some test of greekness that involves reciting the alphabet by heart? I guess I just have a different opinion as to the purpose of new member education.

[12dn94dst]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Y'all are so funny! I don't think you have to know the entire greek alphabet to be a good greek member! We all could easily read the names of other organizations on campus even though the alphabet was not included in our new member education manual. Most greek letters used in GLOs are recognizable to educated people. Do I think that NMs should wait an extra week for initiation so they can learn the greek alphabet? No...I think that's absurd! Does it have anything to do with sisterhood? Absolutely not! Can you give me any other reason that new members should learn the greek alphabet? Is there some test of greekness that involves reciting the alphabet by heart? I guess I just have a different opinion as to the purpose of new member education.

Not to harp on the greek alphabet thing, but WHAT?? Are you SERIOUS??

Among the points of new member education is (or should be if it's not) that no one lives in a vacuum. There are more chapters on campus than yours; there are more greek organizations in the world than yours; there are more chapters of the organizations that are on your campus in the world. it would behoove you, if you plan to set foot off that campus OR if that campus decided to expand, to be able to identify organization and chapter nomenclature.

You know you whole regular alphabet even though the names of most of the people you know and most of the words you use don't have all the letters, right? Same thing. I'm pretty sure you used a week as an example, but if it really takes a week to teach "educated people" the entire greek alphabet, there's either something wrong. Thetagirl218 pointed out half of them are already known from math and science. It should only take a day to learn them. Make up a song or borrow a song from another chapter. As tld221 said, it's embarrassing to be greek and not know the greek alphabet. If you're ok with that sort of thing..........

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

Y'all are so funny! I don't think you have to know the entire greek alphabet to be a good greek member! We all could easily read the names of other organizations on campus even though the alphabet was not included in our new member education manual. Most greek letters used in GLOs are recognizable to educated people. Do I think that NMs should wait an extra week for initiation so they can learn the greek alphabet? No...I think that's absurd! Does it have anything to do with sisterhood? Absolutely not! Can you give me any other reason that new members should learn the greek alphabet? Is there some test of greekness that involves reciting the alphabet by heart? I guess I just have a different opinion as to the purpose of new member education.

Wow, the wheels are REALLY well oiled on your skates.

So basically, you wouldn't know whether Xi Epsilon chapter came before Rho Beta Chapter -- of your own organization?