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Originally Posted by KsigAkron
Yesterday I found out that we will be the Pi-Rho Chapter.
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KSAkron:
Thank you for the prompt reply.
Interesting that your chapter is going to be designated Pi-Rho. The next chapter to be installed is the present colony at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Somebody from that colony has posted that their chapter is to be designated Pi-Omicron, which makes perfect sense given that the most recently chartered chapter is Pi-Xi at Colorado State University. The Greek alphabet goes ... Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, ... So if your chapter is going to be Pi-Rho, that would mean that some other colony is going to be chartered after UCCS and before your Akron colony ... unless, of course, the powers that be in the Fraternity have decided not to use Pi-Pi because they think that other groups on whatever campus the chapter it would be on would make fun of it, calling it Pee-Pee.
If that sounds ridiculous to you, don't laugh too hard. The Fraternity has resorted to such silliness twice before. First of all, it skipped the entire Eta series of chapters ... the only fraternity that has ever done so. After the Epsilon-Omega chapter was chartered at Georgia State University, the powers that be at the time decided to skip using a Zeta series in honour of mother Zeta chapter at the University of Virginia
and to skip using an Eta series for what it called "euphonic" reasons. Then, even goofier, in both the Mu and Nu series of chapters, the powers that be at the time decided not to use the Mu-Mu, Mu-Nu, Mu-Pi, Mu-Chi, Nu-Mu, Nu-Nu, Nu-Pi, and Nu-Chi chapter designations, again for "euphonic" reasons, and again the only fraternity ever to engage in such nonsense.
So the Fraternity
may be skipping the Pi-Pi designation. If not, I wonder what other colony is being chartered before the Akron colony, and thus receiving the Pi-Pi designation: Academy of Art? Alaska Anchorage? New Mexico Tech? New Orleans? Salisbury? Does anybody know?
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