A Legacy Story

agzg · #1 02-05-2010, 06:39 PM

So cute. I like when biological sisters are sorority sisters too.

I have a question, though. You said you wrote this in real time but waited to post it... does that mean that you don't have to participate in silence with your biological sister if she's a PNM? That's a general, you, there, I'm genuinely curious.

littleowl33 · #2 02-06-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by agzg

So cute. I like when biological sisters are sorority sisters too.

I have a question, though. You said you wrote this in real time but waited to post it... does that mean that you don't have to participate in silence with your biological sister if she's a PNM? That's a general, you, there, I'm genuinely curious.

At my school, PNMs and sisters can only have Normal Social Contact (Hi! How are you? Fine. Goodbye!) from January 1st until Bid Day, which is usually February 4th or 5th. Since she is my sister, I was allowed to file an exemption to be able to talk to her normally. The only thing that applied to me was strict silence between the end of Pref and beginning of Bid Night celebrations.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations!

GeorgiaGPhiB · #3 02-06-2010, 06:06 PM

Of course, congrats! I love love love your shirts.

Side note - I would think a person's legacy status could effect their cuts/bids. I know if some sisters where on the edge about a girl and she had legacy status at another house, then they would be more likely to cut. The reason being is they thought that the PNM would go through/bid at her legacy house and by cutting it gave other girls a chance to bid at their house. It boils down to why waste a bid. Not its not nice, but I have seen it done. Either way, a greater plan is at work!

agzg · #4 02-06-2010, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by littleowl33

At my school, PNMs and sisters can only have Normal Social Contact (Hi! How are you? Fine. Goodbye!) from January 1st until Bid Day, which is usually February 4th or 5th. Since she is my sister, I was allowed to file an exemption to be able to talk to her normally. The only thing that applied to me was strict silence between the end of Pref and beginning of Bid Night celebrations.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations!

That's interesting! I feel like I need a "The More You Know" sign thrown at me - I never knew such exemptions existed (and I was a Rho Gamma for 2 years!) - just goes to show - even "insiders" on recruitment don't know everything!

KSUViolet06 · #5 02-06-2010, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by agzg

That's interesting! I feel like I need a "The More You Know" sign thrown at me - I never knew such exemptions existed (and I was a Rho Gamma for 2 years!) - just goes to show - even "insiders" on recruitment don't know everything!

We had the same rule (normal social contact and strict silence between Pref and Bid Night).

agzg · #6 02-06-2010, 11:03 PM

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We had the same rule (normal social contact and strict silence between Pref and Bid Night).

Right so did we, but I didn't know there was an exemption for biological sisters.

honeychile · #7 02-07-2010, 12:14 AM

I absolutely love the shirts - I wonder how many other chapters around the PNC GC world will have them next year?

Just remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

I also love the picture of the two of you, and her key. Question to all Kappas - have you ever noticed that pretty much all Key jewelry has a backwards Key?

LucyKKG · #8 02-07-2010, 03:10 AM

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Question to all Kappas - have you ever noticed that pretty much all Key jewelry has a backwards Key?

What do you mean "backwards"? Like it's facing the wrong way if you turn it horizontal?

CougarGrad · #9 02-07-2010, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

I absolutely love the shirts - I wonder how many other chapters around the PNC GC world will have them next year?

Just remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

I'm almost positive one of the groups at North Texas had "Go" and "Went" shirts this year or last. I know I've seen them- Chi O or Pi Phi, maybe.

ComradesTrue · #10 02-07-2010, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

I absolutely love the shirts - I wonder how many other chapters around the PNC GC world will have them next year?

Just remember, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

The TCU and Univ of Texas Kappas were doing those shirts back in the early 90s when I was an active. There has been a lot of imitation and flattery as far as those go!

littleowl33 · #11 02-07-2010, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by agzg

Right so did we, but I didn't know there was an exemption for biological sisters.

I don't know if it's done on a Panhel-by-Panhel basis, but that's what they decided for us and the other sisters with (bio) sisters going through recruitment. It could be different elsewhere.

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Side note - I would think a person's legacy status could effect their cuts/bids. I know if some sisters where on the edge about a girl and she had legacy status at another house, then they would be more likely to cut. The reason being is they thought that the PNM would go through/bid at her legacy house and by cutting it gave other girls a chance to bid at their house. It boils down to why waste a bid. Not its not nice, but I have seen it done. Either way, a greater plan is at work!

That definitely makes sense. We'll probably never know if it affected her cuts, but she was happy with her schedule, so no worries!

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The TCU and Univ of Texas Kappas were doing those shirts back in the early 90s when I was an active. There has been a lot of imitation and flattery as far as those go!

I'm pretty sure the design was suggested to us by our headquarters/advisers/LC as a bid day shirt design Kappa wants to push nationally. I've seen it elsewhere and I love it, so I was excited when our New Member chair decided to use it!

ETA: Here are some better pictures of the design: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...postcount=1201

GeorgiaGPhiB · #12 02-09-2010, 02:51 PM

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ETA: Here are some better pictures of the design: http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...postcount=1201

I suprised to read that they were allowed to wear the GO KAPPA shirts before recruitment started. That was BIG no-no for all the sororities on campus. They said something about it pushing girls to go one way or another (I personally do not think a shirt is going to push a PNM one way or another but that's just me!). Either way I'm pushing hard for those to be our bid day shirts!