Mixed Up/Unusual Names Someone Has Called Your Org.

[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.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by ΑΓΔSquirrelGirl

Guess we gotta agree to disagree.

That's perfectly fine. And really, I think it's got more to do with campus culture than anything else.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

That's perfectly fine. And really, I think it's got more to do with campus culture than anything else.

I agree, we didnt' have jerseys but all the chapters had shirts in different colors. I have a bright green SK intramural shirt with white letters. Did we do this to piss off the KDs? No, we did it because we already had an orange, lavendar, pale yellow, blue, purple, and white T-shirt. It was cute, not offensive.

All the chapters on our campus did this from everything from bid-day T-shirts to party shirts to PR shirts.

[AGDee]

In marketing courses, you learn about branding (and I don't mean with a hot iron). Like, the Chevrolet symbol is one of the most recognized symbols in the US. You know that Coke is red and white and Pepsi is blue and red. It is my opinion that things with our letters on them should be in our colors for this purpose. It creates a stronger impression if you wear the colors consistently. Our chapter in college had bright yellow baseball jackets with red writing that we got at Initiation. We all had the same jacket and you could spot an Alpha Gam coming from across campus. The Tri Sigmas had purple coats, Sigma Kappas had maroon and Alpha Xi Delta had dark blue. Each of the fraternities did the same, although I believe both the Phi Sigma Epsilons and the TKE's had red jackets, so it was kind of confusing with them. I was sad when my chapter stopped getting the yellow coats and started wearing any old color around campus.

If others choose to do things differently, each to his/her own. I just choose to only buy things in our colors when they have letters.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AGDee

In marketing courses, you learn about branding (and I don't mean with a hot iron). Like, the Chevrolet symbol is one of the most recognized symbols in the US. You know that Coke is red and white and Pepsi is blue and red. It is my opinion that things with our letters on them should be in our colors for this purpose. It creates a stronger impression if you wear the colors consistently. Our chapter in college had bright yellow baseball jackets with red writing that we got at Initiation. We all had the same jacket and you could spot an Alpha Gam coming from across campus. The Tri Sigmas had purple coats, Sigma Kappas had maroon and Alpha Xi Delta had dark blue. Each of the fraternities did the same, although I believe both the Phi Sigma Epsilons and the TKE's had red jackets, so it was kind of confusing with them. I was sad when my chapter stopped getting the yellow coats and started wearing any old color around campus.

If others choose to do things differently, each to his/her own. I just choose to only buy things in our colors when they have letters.

We did all have the same jackets simply because it was cheaper to order them in bulk. But T-shirts, nah, they come in all colors. With only 5 chapters on campus, and recruitment done early in the fall, "branding" wouldn't really have worked for us. We wore letters nearly every day leading up to recruitment and it would've looked weird if we were ALWAYS wearing maroon.

[AlphaFrog]

My sorority is not a "brand", it's a sisterhood. Period.