honor societies

[AlwaysSAI]

Originally Posted by AGDAlum

www.phisigmapi.org
I came across their website today. Their history is well-presented and comprehensive (and fairly candid, given the number of times their Alpha chapter has been revived).

There is a link to a fraternity that Phi Sigma Pi had crossed with in its early days: www.philambdaepsilon.org . . .I understand that it might have been a genuine fraternity at one time; is this contemporary site a spoof?

Thanks for the compliment! The current website is fairly new and was completely redone sometime in 2007. I love the comprehensive history. I sat one day and read it all.

Without Phi Lamb, Phi Sig would not have some into being. I have seen that Phi Lamb website before and did question it's validity as a fraternity of any kind.

[valmypal]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

I've kind of skimmed through this thread, so I'm gonna add my two cents.

The biggest difference I see between pure honor societies and say, Phi Sigma Pi, an honor FRATERNITY is the secrecy of the ritual. The only people that know the inner meanings of Phi Sigma Pi are initiated brothers. We have a secret grip, password, meanings for all of our symbols, etc.

Compare that to Kappa Delta Pi, the education honor society. The 'initiation' ceremony was totally public--everyone and their momma was there to see every one take a 'vow'--whatever. There was no recruitment, no pledging ceremony, no pledging period. All I had to do to get in was maintain a 3.0 (I believe), which I would have done anyway.

Thanks AlwaysSAI, this makes sense.

When I was a freshmen I was dating an older engineering major from a different school. He joined tau beta pi and engineering honor society. They sort of did some hazing by making the pledge class file and polish their metal symbol thing and do these projects before being initiated or whatever. And then afterwards they had social events and did community service and stuff like that. They did engineering stuff too. No big deal I guess except for the fact that this boy was the reason I didn't rush my freshmen year because "what would my friends think if they knew my girlfriend was in a sorority?"

[Little32]

Well I know that when I was president of STD, we hazed quite a bit (if that makes us wannabe social greeks.)









I kid. Though it wasn't through lack of my trying. I was tired of initiating members that never showed up for a meeting after initiation, so I wanted to have would be members do some organization service before we initiated them. I was told that we could not, because that would be hazing.