hey to all my deltas

[dddgirly02]

Hey Deltas,

Found this site and thought I'd say hi to all of you!! I pledged last fall, and it has been the BEST decision I have ever made!! I am so proud to be a Tri Delt!! We truly are the best house on campus!! Time and time again, we have proven how strong we are as a chapter and as a national organization. I have also made some of my best friends through ddd. I can't imagine going through college without my deltas. So, I would just like to say hello to everyone. Hope summer is going great!! I just have several questions to continue this post. How are the tri delts perceived at other campuses. Also, I've seen on other posts the topic of rivalries. How do other chapters deal with rivalry and attempt to decrease the tension and dislike between other sororities? Thanks!!

~delta love~

dddgirly02

[DolphinChicaDDD]

First, welcome to the forum!!

At my campus, we are loved by the frats, and the sororities,well, are getting used to us. It was a long fight to get on campus, and they are just begining to get used to the idea that we aren't going anywhere. As we wanted our rush shirts to read, "Sometimes loved, sometimes hated...NEVER ignored."

As far as rivarly, tesion, etc etc...
heh, we're working on that. Actually I'm working on it with a select few of the other sororities. those of us that sit on CPH have these great ideas, and some chapter always vetos it. The only thing that bought the CPH together was to be united againt us being recognized. But that really didn't work...

[sugar and spice]

Hey dddgirly! Welcome to the board! What school do you go to?

From everything I've heard from people, Tri Delta chapters are pretty strong all over the country. Up here in Wisconsin we are known as fun, down-to-earth girls, and very diverse -- we have everything from the beauty queens to the partiers to the athletes to the the future lawyers and doctors. There are some sororities on campus where you can spot a girl walking down the street and immediately identify her as an ABC, but you definitely can't do that with the Tri Delts because there are so many different types of us! The fraternities like us a lot. Unfortunately, at Wisconsin there is a lot of rivalry between sororities, but our newest pledge classes are trying to change that since we all have friends in different sororities.

To decrease tension between sororities, we send each other cards and notes all the time -- to wish them good luck with recruitment, to congratulate them on their new pledge class, to say Happy Holidays. I've also heard of sororities inviting other sororities to do social activities with them -- like asking the Kappas to do makeovers or something. We did a self-defense workshop with Pi Phi this spring. You could also pair up with a sorority to do a double mixer (two sororities, two fraternities) or a double fundraiser. Kappa and Pi Phi do a double basketball tournament for charity together here, and I know that at the University of Texas, Tri Delta and Kappa Alpha Theta have a formal together that they call the Twinstar Formal (Theta uses stars on their badge and so do we, so that's where the name comes from).