NPHC Greeks - how do you feel about this?

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

Shoot, other folx collected elephants way before Deltas did.

I know a lot of people who collect elephants. Matter of fact, my mother and I loved and collected elephants.

When I first started befriending the women who also happened be Deltas on the yard, I quickly learned that having elephants around my dorm room can be perceived the wrong way. Nothing was said to me but I could see facial expressions. I can't remember if I put them in a box or not.

Originally Posted by ladygreek

So please enlighten me and tell me the deep meaning behind it, as well as calls, hand signs, and crossing jackets--to the point that we are offended at others doing these things. Somehow I missed that in my 38 years as a continually active Delta.

In all fairness, the deep meanings will vary and always be debatable. The real issue is with identifiability.

The "ooo-oop" and elephant aren't official and may've started with a certain intent (the "ooo-oop" may've been a knock off of the New York call and I've heard posthoc stories of where the elephant significance comes from) but in the GLO realm of over a decade, and as far as many Sorority officials who aren't blind to reality of changing practices, it is now closely associated with Deltas.