Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by susan314

It took me awhile after college to start being comfortable with saying "AGD" in the context of my sorority. At my college campus, Alpha Xi Delta went by "AZD", so it was very confusing if anyone tried to call us "AGD."

We tried to gently steer people (members and non-members) to use the "Alpha Gam" name to minimize confusion - both for our benefit and AZD's. It became such a habit in college to only say "Alpha Gam" when abbreviating our name that it took me awhile to adapt to "AGD" as being an acceptable version too.

You know, now that I think about it, no one says AGD here, really, either. It's not very pretty sounding. Pretty much EVERYONE says "Alpha Gam"...no one to get confused with, though. The only way we get confused is with ADPi sometimes, because of jerseys...apparently no one believes in using their organization's colors, so people on campus who aren't greek register an alpha and a delta but don't bother to look at the third letter or the order that they're in...not that I mind being confused with ADPi specifically, but I don't like being confused with anyone.

That reminds me...does anyone here encourage members to have jerseys made in the correct colors? If you did, did it go over well?

It is very confusing during Recruitment when 90% of the PNMs have a hard time remembering Greek letters, but can remember colors...pet peeve of mine, I guess. Mine are red, buff, and green only, with the exception of a screen printed on I was given with red letters and a white outline on a grey shirt...which is ok. I guess I can see using different colors, but really, why use someone ELSE'S color combination? At least not of the organizations on campus?

[AlphaFrog]

I love purple. I have lots of purple letters. We had Tri Sigma on campus. Did I care? No. Of course, these were mine that I had made personally, not something we did as a chapter. And my tote bag is black with purple & silver letters. I also have zebra striped letters and spotted letters, etc. I don't think I should have to use crimson, white, green and gold. I don't always want to look like a Christmas tree.

[AChiOhSnap]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I don't always want to look like a Christmas tree.

LOL, try being an Alpha Chi.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

LOL, try being an Alpha Chi.

Are you kidding? This doesn't remind me at all of Christmas.

[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.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

I think it's a respect-your-letters thing.

I respect ASA whether it's ASA ASA or ASA.

They mean the same thing, regardless of color.

It's like Sheila likes to say - respect the letters themselves, not the fabric sewed to a sweatshirt.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I respect ASA whether it's ASA ASA or ASA.

They mean the same thing, regardless of color.

It's like Sheila likes to say - respect the letters themselves, not the fabric sewed to a sweatshirt.

It's the principle of it. I realize the colors aren't the most important part of the organization, but they're still a part of it...kinda like being on the USA Olympic team and showing up wearing Russia's flag on your shirt. Yeah, you're on the USA team and you're in your uniform...but you're wearing someone else's flag because you think it's cuter. Doesn't scream "team spirit". It just seems like a little thing to do to be supportive...I mean I like skull and crossbones designs and I love anchors, I miss the color pink, I love the combination of blue and white, and I like pink and blue together...but I make the small sacrifice of not incorporating them into my sorority paraphenalia because they aren't mine...and dressing Alpha Gamma Delta in, say, Phi Mu's colors doesn't seem right.

[LaneSig]

I hate when someone calls me a "Sig Chi". Our nickname is "Sig". Just "Sig".

I was wearing a shirt with the letters on it one day. Someone asked me why I had "ex" on my shirt.

[cuteASAbug]

It's just a t shirt. Besides, considering that there are 26 sororities in the NPC, people's colors are bound to overlap. On my campus we have both ASA and AOII, and we both use red and white as our colors.

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

It's just a t shirt. Besides, considering that there are 26 sororities in the NPC, people's colors are bound to overlap. On my campus we have both ASA and AOII, and we both use red and white as our colors.

I don't view anything with my letters on it as "JUST a..." because it also has my letters. Overlapping of official colors is one thing...making a pink and white AGD jersey is another.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

I don't view anything with my letters on it as "JUST a..." because it also has my letters. Overlapping of official colors is one thing...making a pink and white AGD jersey is another.

I still think it has to do with the intent. If you make a pink & white shirt because you happen to like pink & white together, that's fine. If you make a pink & white jersey because you have Phi Mu on your campus, and you want to piss them off, that's bad.

ASA
BK Chapter

[ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

I still think it has to do with the intent. If you make a pink & white shirt because you happen to like pink & white together, that's fine. If you make a pink & white jersey because you have Phi Mu on your campus, and you want to piss them off, that's bad.

ASA
BK Chapter

Guess we gotta agree to disagree.