Ever Met a Person Falsely Claiming To Be A Member of Your Org?

[sageofages]

Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
Our card is plastic. Like a credit card...never leave home without it.

I definitely thing as groups grow they should invest in them. It aids in membership verification and it reminds us of where our money is going,lol.

I want a card!!! Writing to the EO right now.....

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally posted by TheEpitome1920
Our card is plastic. Like a credit card...never leave home without it.

I heard that.
We have cards and certif's too. I haven't run into a perp yet but have heard the stories.

[preciousjeni]

Originally posted by crzychx
There is a girl that I've run into several times at LCC (Lexington Community College) that wears Sigma Kappa shirts & whatnot & says she is a member of the Georgetown chapter. I know she isn't a sister 'cause she thinks our symbols are pearls (really the heart & dove), our flowers are carnations (its really the violet), our colors are really pink & purple (instead of lavender & maroon) & she thinks our philanthropy is Breast Cancer. I mean really-this is all information she could've taken off our web site if she really wanted to be a poser I don't know why she didn't!

But in all seriousness, I know for a fact she isn't 'cause I've looked her name up in the sister directory & it isn't there.

Have you called her on it?????

[_Lisa_]

I don't see her much anymore since school is out but I have called her out on it by asking about our symbols, colors, flower, etc. I didn't think to look her up in the sister directory until after school was over, but if I do see her again I will most definitely have something to say...if anything but to ask her why she is trying to misrepresent herself.

[preciousjeni]

In a way, perps are flattering. Once your org is so well established that you have people posing as members, you know you're there!

[Tom Earp]

Perps can be flattering or not!

If they are perps and act like children well take it from there!

What is sad, these maybe wantabes can harm a Soroity/ Fraternity by their actions.

I lost my Billfold one time, I was very concerned about 3 things, D L, S S and LXA Card.

I called International and told them the story, and got one in the mail very soon. Then got on phone with Credit Cards!

I guess they are trying to be part of and arent yet. Just set them straight in a nice way and maybe they will understand!

Yes, I was concerned about My LXA Card, I put to much work into it not to have one. And damn proud to carry it, I also have a back up just in case!

Never met a perp proclaiming to be a LXA as the first thing is throw the grip on him.

Still remember it and damn proud! Oh to just ah a say, I forgot it as had not had to use it for many years and could not get into Ritual without it! Thank goodness they all new me!

[AlphaFrog]

We have a girl on our campus who got a bid, but we closed before she was initiated (or even through the first ceamony that offically begins the NM period, when our chapter allowed girls to wear sewn letters). Now, we had given her 2 screenprinted shirts and she continued to wear those, which was OK (in my opinion), because they were given to her and she fit the critera (for my chapter) to wear them (she got a bid)....but then she went out and had sewn on letters made, a totebag, a keychain and a car window sticker....it didn't bother me at first and I still saw her alot, as we were the same major, and I tried to give her the respect of a New Member (I would say sister, but she doesn't know ANY secrets, so I can't really say that)...until I found out right before the semester was over that she's been spreading gossip about me...SORRY HUNNY, you're no longer a sister/new member/or even friend of mine...please remove my letters....

[starang21]

Originally posted by preciousjeni
In a way, perps are flattering. Once your org is so well established that you have people posing as members, you know you're there!

no, i disagree. if they didn't put in the work, they don't deserve to be blessed with my letters and they will be treated accordingly.

[D_Chi_Zinni]

One time we had a social at a bar with another fraternity and 2 sororities, and some kid was telling people he was in DX. I mean its pretty lame to fake that you are in a fraternity just to get into a private party at a bar. We threw him out and that was the end of it, but still lame.

[Firehouse]

OK. Here's a story I hope is entertaining. Please remember: it happened a long time ago, there was a lot of drinking, and, well, there was a lot of drinking.
We were members of the university's athletic spirit honorary for men. It was made up almost entirely of fraternity guys, and a couple dozen of us took a long road trip to another university for a football weekend. Turns out we were the opponent for their Homecoming, so their entire campus was alive with parties Friday night. All the fraternities were building floats for the Saturday parade before the big game.
Rather than split up our group and go to our own various houses, we decided we wanted to stay together. We agreed that we would all pretend to be members of whatever fraternity we visited, led by the members of our club who actually WERE brothers of that fraternity.
When we walked into the SAE house, the two or three SAE's in our group introduced us all around as members of their chapter at FSU. When we went to the KA house, and the Lambda Chi house and the Sigma Chi house, we were just twenty-four guys from that chapter at Florida State, visiting and happy to be guests at a homecoming party hosted by our "Brothers" at the host campus.
Before we began our waltz across the party landscape, we considered what to do if any of us were members of a fraternity with NO CHAPTER on the campus. All agreed that any orphan would have to be a 'pledge' and would not have Brother status. We got a campus map and discovered that Phi Delta Theta had no
chapter. So our spirit club president, who was also president of Phi Delt at FSU, had to assume the role of pledge wherever we went.
This was no problem until we got to my fraternity. We all walked up on the lawn, and I and a couple of other Pikes introduced the entire group as Pikes from FSU, including our 'pledge'. The local Brothers were very gracious and invited us inside to sample the fruits of the evening's celebration EXCEPT FOR THE PLEDGE. The pledges were all assigned to remain in the front yard and work on the float until it was finished. So naturally, they felt it was only proper for our pledge to join the others outside. From time to time we'd sneak a beer outside to him, and of course we'd have to point out that he wasn't hammering the nails properly and remind him that as a low pledge he needed to try very, very hard to make a good impression on us so we wouldn't blackball him. He actually threw a hammer at one of us, but other than that one thing he was a really good sport about it all.
It was a wonderful trip and we all talk about to this day. And, we heard that our host greeks were tremendously impressed that the campus was virtually "flooded" with Greeks from FSU. "There must have been twenty, thirty men from every fraternity at every party!", they said. And one (Phi Delt) pledge.

[steelepike]

Originally posted by Firehouse
OK. Here's a story I hope is entertaining. Please remember: it happened a long time ago, there was a lot of drinking, and, well, there was a lot of drinking.
We were members of the university's athletic spirit honorary for men. It was made up almost entirely of fraternity guys, and a couple dozen of us took a long road trip to another university for a football weekend. Turns out we were the opponent for their Homecoming, so their entire campus was alive with parties Friday night. All the fraternities were building floats for the Saturday parade before the big game.
Rather than split up our group and go to our own various houses, we decided we wanted to stay together. We agreed that we would all pretend to be members of whatever fraternity we visited, led by the members of our club who actually WERE brothers of that fraternity.
When we walked into the SAE house, the two or three SAE's in our group introduced us all around as members of their chapter at FSU. When we went to the KA house, and the Lambda Chi house and the Sigma Chi house, we were just twenty-four guys from that chapter at Florida State, visiting and happy to be guests at a homecoming party hosted by our "Brothers" at the host campus.
Before we began our waltz across the party landscape, we considered what to do if any of us were members of a fraternity with NO CHAPTER on the campus. All agreed that any orphan would have to be a 'pledge' and would not have Brother status. We got a campus map and discovered that Phi Delta Theta had no
chapter. So our spirit club president, who was also president of Phi Delt at FSU, had to assume the role of pledge wherever we went.
This was no problem until we got to my fraternity. We all walked up on the lawn, and I and a couple of other Pikes introduced the entire group as Pikes from FSU, including our 'pledge'. The local Brothers were very gracious and invited us inside to sample the fruits of the evening's celebration EXCEPT FOR THE PLEDGE. The pledges were all assigned to remain in the front yard and work on the float until it was finished. So naturally, they felt it was only proper for our pledge to join the others outside. From time to time we'd sneak a beer outside to him, and of course we'd have to point out that he wasn't hammering the nails properly and remind him that as a low pledge he needed to try very, very hard to make a good impression on us so we wouldn't blackball him. He actually threw a hammer at one of us, but other than that one thing he was a really good sport about it all.
It was a wonderful trip and we all talk about to this day. And, we heard that our host greeks were tremendously impressed that the campus was virtually "flooded" with Greeks from FSU. "There must have been twenty, thirty men from every fraternity at every party!", they said. And one (Phi Delt) pledge.

hilarious, i've done that as well with some of my friends that go to other schools, but not with twenty people

[caz815nupike]

hahahahaha oh man, that pledge part is the kicker!! haha

Since our sorority is new to the state (3 chapters) I have not experienced this situation.

After reading your posts, I hope I never do.

[AndrewNickatina]

Eh some KA from SDSU called me a fake cuz I didnt know the active test when I was a pledge from the Riverside chapter. What a dumbass eh?

[Lindz928]

All ya'll talking about carrying your membership cards made me want to go and get mine, but I can't find it!
It must have gotten misplaced in the thousands of times I've moved in the few short years since I was initiated.

Anyway, my story- After my little was "asked not to return" to our chapter, we would always see her wearing the shirts that they had not managed to get back from her. We couldn't figure out why she would wear them since she didn't seem to take any pride in our letters while she was a member. Talk about frustrating.