My Live Spring Rush Story

[FSUZeta]

congratulations on all your news and thank you for being so mindful to have colors, motto, etc. of your own which are unique and original. if you want to eventually affiliate with the national engineering sorority, i hope that it works out for you.

what decisions do you and the greek advisor come to?

also, i apologize for not answering your question about which sorority i had researched, but i did not revisit this thread until today. honestly, i cannot remember with organization it was, but i think it may have been AOE.

i still think that an engineering sorority deserves its own distinct greek council, since it is more specialized in its membership selection.

[OHNOITSJESS]

thanks on the congrats!

i have a question for NPC'ers. THe assistant dean of the college of engineering [from here on out reffered to as COE] is our advisor. He is only a temporary advisor. There is this Eng. Undecided advsior that we were interested in contacting. I came to know that she was a member/is an alumna [still a little iffy on that] of an NPC sorority. I was wondering if she is an Alumna, is there any restrictions of her serving in an advisor position for us?

as for symbols and colors and motto...
.... well we tried to be as unique as possible. while i won't reveal the name yet, our colors are indigo [a bright purple-y blue, that is hard to find so we have to settle for royal blue on shirts.. ] yellow [like a lemony shade] and powder/sky blue. our symbols are A compass [the navigational one not the drafting one] with a fleur de lis [like this one] and a gear [go figure...]
our flower is the cornflower [tenative] and our jewel is the sapphire.

i know it sounds like were ripping off of kappa but we aren't. we tried to use the symbols we like in a way that isn't copying them. we have a kappa here and in no way are trying to emulate them. Conflict with any NPC org is the last thing i want here.... well conflict with any org period.

[MaggieXi]

Do you have Alpha Xi Delta on your campus? Your colors would probably get confused. AXiD's colors are double blue (dark and light blue) and gold.

[EEKappa]

Originally Posted by MaggieXi

Do you have Alpha Xi Delta on your campus? Your colors would probably get confused. AXiD's colors are double blue (dark and light blue) and gold.

Looks like we posted at the same time!

[OHNOITSJESS]

We do not have an A Xi D on campus, or a Theta Phi Alpha. The closest to the Blue scheme we come to is Tri-Delta and Kappa. and I did read tha Kappa Gamma thread and that was ridiculous. I'll talk to my VP [we are really close and even work together] and see what [is anything] we can do.

No takers on my advisor question?

[MaggieXi]

We don't have Kappa on my former campus, but we do have Tri-Delta. Often there is an issue with both orgs using blue and yellow at the same time - so AXiD tries to use double blue and Tri-Delta tries to stick with blue and gold. To be honest, there is a lot overlap with the color blue in general in the NPC- ADPi, Kappa, TriDelt, AXiD, DG (all of the top of my head) all have blue in some sort of combination. And when I hear fleur delis, I immediately think of Kappa (but I come from a long line of Kappas!)

[EEKappa]

Though I know from reading your posts that your intentions are completely good and you are not imitating any group, others will likely not be so understanding when they see the coincidence of the blue and blue, sapphire, and compass with fleur de lis. You won't have the opportunity to explain to them your rationale before they jump to the conclusion that you've taken inspiration from the symbols of another GLO on your campus. As a new group starting out, it would be really unfortunate if you were viewed as posers, even though you aren't. Just my .02.

Also, as you may know, Alpha Xi Delta's colors are light blue, dark blue, and gold. (One of my Kappa friends has an A Xi D daughter, and they think it's cool that their colors are so similar.)

Wishing you the best with your new group!

[33girl]

Well, Theta Phi Alpha has the compass too, and their colors are silver, blue and gold.

Like I said in that Kappa Gamma thread - unless you want to go w/ orange and puce and have your mascot be the horny armadillo, there's going to be some overlap.