Fake Pi Phi

[33girl]

The crest is mighty ugly, and the angels are too, but there are lots of people into angels & I don't see anything else that screams Pi Beta Phi.

And incidentally, this is Temple's Ambler campus, not the main campus where there are several NPCs.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The crest is mighty ugly, and the angels are too, but there are lots of people into angels & I don't see anything else that screams Pi Beta Phi.

...except their name! PI PHI.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

...except their name! PI PHI.

Pi Phi is a NICKNAME for Pi Beta Phi. It happens to be this sorority's full name. If you copyright every nickname, there aren't going to be any letters left.

Believe it or not, there are such things as coincidences. Believe it or not, some people have no idea who all the NPC groups are.

I'm not saying there haven't been some straight up imitators (we've outed most of them on here) - I just don't think this is one of them. If it was, there would be way more arrows and wine red and silver blue.

[breathesgelatin]

Assuming this group's site is accurate, and they've been around since 2000 and only closed circa 2006-2007, I'm surprised that they haven't been "outed" before.

In my opinion the colors are also extremely close to ours, but I could see how you could make an argument that it wasn't a copycat. It's not like they copied EVERYTHING about Pi BETA Phi, unlike some of the other copycat orgs we've seen on GC.

[TigerPiPhi]

Maybe they were a group hoping to affliate with the national group one day?

I remember before Furman University opened up to national sororities, there were a few local groups that had names very similar to national ones. One was Chios, I believe (obviously a play on Chi-O). I think that in most cases the locals and the nationals did actually match up when the nationals were allowed to establish groups.