Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[ZeePhiBee4Me]

my mother, who is one of those people who NEVER gets names right (she calls Snickers candy bars Sniggles lol) asked me why i pledged and what was so great about those Zappa Kappas...

hear the crickets chirping? i just stared at her for a moment and corrected her. it didnt stick. she still calls Zeta Phi Beta the Zappa Kappas...

[ziasha07]

Originally Posted by ZeePhiBee4Me

my mother, who is one of those people who NEVER gets names right (she calls Snickers candy bars Sniggles lol) asked me why i pledged and what was so great about those Zappa Kappas...

hear the crickets chirping? i just stared at her for a moment and corrected her. it didnt stick. she still calls Zeta Phi Beta the Zappa Kappas...

LMAO. Aww that's cute.

[SalukiPhiSig]

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by SalukiPhiSig

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

That was worse when we had both Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Epsilon (before the merge)

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SalukiPhiSig

Phi Sig Kap is generally the most annoying one. It might be more understandable if Phi Sigma Sigma or another Phi Sigma ------ was on our campus but there aren't.

On a lighter note, I called the American Cancer Society yesterday to get my chapter squared away with the Relay-for-Life that's coming up and I told the woman on the phone that I am a member of Phi Sigma Kappa and I heard her say, "Oh, you're a Phi Sig, you're talking to an old Tri-Sigma girl." It's good to hear some random person get you're name right every once in a while, even if they are greek.

We had Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Sigma on our campus, so it was PhiSig for Phi Sigma Sigma and PhiKap for Phi Sigma Kappa.

Oh, and my dad is a Phi Tau Saluki.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

at my school, Phi Sigma Kappa is called "Kappa". Phi Sigma Sigma was the first sorority on campus long before they arrived, plus we have Pi Kappa Phi "Pi Kapp", so "Phi Kapp" would be confusing. Thankfully, we don't have Kappa Kappa Gamma...

[SalukiPhiSig]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We had Phi Sigma Kappa and Phi Sigma Sigma on our campus, so it was PhiSig for Phi Sigma Sigma and PhiKap for Phi Sigma Kappa.

Oh, and my dad is a Phi Tau Saluki.

Really, your dad went to SIU? You should let him know that Phi Kappa Tau is currently a colony, but they're quickly on their way to becoming re-chartered because of the hard work of their members. They are truly a good group of guys.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SalukiPhiSig

Really, your dad went to SIU? You should let him know that Phi Kappa Tau is currently a colony, but they're quickly on their way to becoming re-chartered because of the hard work of their members. They are truly a good group of guys.

Unfortunately, my dad thinks of his fraternity as "something he did in college", and actually had no intention of rushing. He ended up joining because "back in the day" they used to assign GDIs to fraternity houses when they ran out of dorm space, and he was assigned to Phi Tau, and he ended up liking it and joining. I am slowly changing his mind - especially since (as I've pointed out to him umpteen times) Charlotte has the highest concentration of Phi Tau alums in the country.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

On my campus every chapter has an official jersey in their colors. Then most orgs. have "families" with their own specidific jersey colors and then you can make t-shirts however you'd like or with various patterns or random favorite colors. But a lot of people do their favorite fraternity and do shirts: Ex: a "Sammy Girl" would get a Sammy colored jersey or shirt or whatever. Ex: My "big brother" is a TKE (so is my BF and Big Sister is the Sweetheart of '06 and her BF is a TKE, etc. etc.) so I have a TKE colored jersey with my letters.

However, it would be in poor taste for me to have a DPHIE (purple, gold)colored jersey as I'm not a DPHIE or an AOII (red & white) jersey, or whatever (now I can have a red jersey [for example my TKE colored jersey is red w/ silver letters and a white background], but I wouldn't go out and get a red jersey with white letters and black background because that is the AOII jersey here).

It's confusing from the back and yes people would take offense for another girl to be wearing my jersey/jersey colors that's not a member. It does kind of grind my gears that a lot of people (I will not name names) have a tendency to use Pink and White (not at my school necessarily, but elsewhere). Pink is the only color Phi Mu has technically, and for someone else to use it excessively can become a problem for PNMs (who are easily confused).
(Plus as Kevin from BSB once said "Find your own identity!")

On my campus, we're "the pink ones" to most of them and if some other group busted out with pink jerseys, non-Greeks would not get it. And just out of respect to the colors we have, why would someone else go and make that their "official" colors when it's not theirs or what their founders or decision makers put in their ritual?

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

On my campus every chapter has an official jersey in their colors. Then most orgs. have "families" with their own specidific jersey colors and then you can make t-shirts however you'd like or with various patterns or random favorite colors. But a lot of people do their favorite fraternity and do shirts: Ex: a "Sammy Girl" would get a Sammy colored jersey or shirt or whatever. Ex: My "big brother" is a TKE (so is my BF and Big Sister is the Sweetheart of '06 and her BF is a TKE, etc. etc.) so I have a TKE colored jersey with my letters.

However, it would be in poor taste for me to have a DPHIE (purple, gold)colored jersey as I'm not a DPHIE or an AOII (red & white) jersey, or whatever (now I can have a red jersey [for example my TKE colored jersey is red w/ silver letters and a white background], but I wouldn't go out and get a red jersey with white letters and black background because that is the AOII jersey here).

It's confusing from the back and yes people would take offense for another girl to be wearing my jersey/jersey colors that's not a member. It does kind of grind my gears that a lot of people (I will not name names) have a tendency to use Pink and White (not at my school necessarily, but elsewhere). Pink is the only color Phi Mu has technically, and for someone else to use it excessively can become a problem for PNMs (who are easily confused).
(Plus as Kevin from BSB once said "Find your own identity!")

On my campus, we're "the pink ones" to most of them and if some other group busted out with pink jerseys, non-Greeks would not get it. And just out of respect to the colors we have, why would someone else go and make that their "official" colors when it's not theirs or what their founders or decision makers put in their ritual?

Glad someone agrees with me then...I don't know, I guess I just don't like putting my letters in someone else's colors. Alpha Gamma Delta's colors do not include pink, for instance. The guys colors is cool...I couldn't, though, since my boyfriend is a Delta Chi. We have Chi O on campus, and we are always careful to "never forget the green"...most, anyway. It's kinda of a way to be respectful to our letters as well as to Chi O.

It's usually just an individual basis thing...the only big problem is the DG jerseys...though in their defense they are probably cheaper in pink and white and the whoever came up with the idea probably assumed that no one could get the letters ΔΓ and ΦΜ mixed up...and that's a legitimate point when we're talking about Greeks, but PNMs do use color, because I know I did, to differentiate. I think in the long run it doesn't hurt during Recruitment because the DG's become the "pink ones", and the Phi Mus have these baseball jersey shirts they wear that are distinctive as well...but it leads to some confusion. Didn't mean to call them out, that's just the only chapter wide example on campus...it's just a pet peeve of mine no matter if it's a lot of people or only one person. My mom said her only jerseys were always green and white (KD) and when she'd give me one for a present it would always be red, buff, and green in some way. I think it's a respect-your-letters thing. Maybe I'm uptight, though.