Regionals

[33girl]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

"SUNY Oswego became the Beta Tau chapter of ASA and did not go back to Clio, but turned into a local called Alpha Sigma Chi.

I clicked on the Alpha Sigma Chi link -- it gives the history of the chapter and ends with a creed that's taken word-for-word from ASA's. Isn't that infringing on copyright? (Or, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"?) And the coat of arms/crest looks very similar.

It's been that way for a long long time (and that site has been around for a long time). They even use the ASA nickname. If Alpha Sigma Alpha wanted to sue them, it would have happened by now. Why they haven't reaffiliated, is for someone more knowledgeable than me to answer.

[PhoenixAttain]

I know this thread is like super old but I have an interesting story about locals gone national and then local again similar to the Alpha Sigma Chi story. In undergrad, I was in a local sorority Theta Kappa. In the early 1970’s until 1989 they were a chapter of Kappa Delta. While some things were changed, our secret motto, songs, and some of the ritual came straight from the ΚΔ playbook. Theta Kappa was briefly a colony of ΑΣΤ in the mid 90’s and went back to ΘΚ until 2010 when the sorority died out. Ironically, I ended up becoming an AI to ΑΣΑ in 2014.