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Old 07-07-2008, 03:08 PM
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Sure!

Name: Zeta Tau Zeta (Zeta Alpha Zeta...yeah, pretty close, haha)

Colors: Royal Blue and Gold (in the movie they are turquoise and yellow)

As a side note, our main shirts are the exact shirt worn in the movie, except obviously with ZTZ instead of ZAZ, and the lettering is royal blue instead of turquoise.



We refer to our members as Zetas and our facility as Zeta House. Our house has both our letters and the word ZETA on it (in the preview the house also has both).



We have been using the term Zeta and Zetas to conduct business for nearly 100 years as well. It is very similar to ZTZ, however we figure anyone with a brain will figure out that the movie is fictional, and no, we are not the same sorority as in the movie. We also believe that anyone who wants to use the word term "ZETA" certainly may. After all, it is just a letter in the Greek alphabet.

My fraternity is local, and one of the authors of the movie attended my (very small) college. During the time she was at my school, Zeta was having trouble keeping numbers up, and ended up deactivating and reactivating. The plot line in this story is that Zeta Alpha Zeta is not able to keep their numbers up and they are risking losing their charter...sound familiar? Our alumnae came to homecoming this past year and told us about this movie and that the author didn't want to make it blatantly about us, so she altered names and colors slightly. We all had a good laugh about it, because, as texas*princess so eloquently worded it:
Sweet!!! Thanks for the lesson. Interesting, indeed.

Local trumps National.
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Old 07-07-2008, 04:53 PM
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Even if you are right and one of the movie's screenwriters based ZAZ on ZTZ and changed things so that ZTZ wasn't identifiable, don't you see why another group would be mad if those changes pointed to them instead. I think ZTZ is safe to feel okay about it...only people from Occidental college know who you are and will probably not think the girls of ZAZ in the movie represent the co-ed ZTZ. On the other hand, most people will see ZETA in turquoise and think ZTA who has used the name ZETA and the color turquoise in its chapters all over the US for 100 years. There is a higher likelihood that they will be identified as the chapter in the movie not ZTZ. So, cut ZTA some slack for being a little upset.
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Local trumps National.
Hardly....

They clearly use our colors and our nickname and ZTZ has only been around since 1926 - ZTA since 1898. We're far more widely known than a small local chapter and I seriously doubt anyone outside of Oxy's area would think of ZTZ before ZTA, especially with the many "coincidences" in this movie.






And those are just from the preview... who knows what all is in the movie.
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Old 07-07-2008, 10:26 PM
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Hardly....

They clearly use our colors and our nickname and ZTZ has only been around since 1926 - ZTA since 1898. We're far more widely known than a small local chapter and I seriously doubt anyone outside of Oxy's area would think of ZTZ before ZTA, especially with the many "coincidences" in this movie.






And those are just from the preview... who knows what all is in the movie.
And I still say that Local trumps National.

You can't prove otherwise, either.
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