Embarrsing another GDI wearing Greek Shirts - Page 14

OhTheAlphaTau · #1 11-25-2008, 11:08 PM

when we ordered our Homecoming letter shirts, we had an alum order one for her daughter! we do NOT have a legacy rule... so what happens when the child comes to college and doesn't get a bid?

PANTHERTEKE · #2 11-25-2008, 11:53 PM

There's this homeless-looking guy on my campus who is known to take anything/everything he can get his hands on.

He was once seen in a Phi Sigma Sigma Bid Day shirt.

(And I'm not talking about the GC Jamaican)

33girl · #3 11-26-2008, 01:57 AM

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Originally Posted by OhTheAlphaTau

when we ordered our Homecoming letter shirts, we had an alum order one for her daughter! we do NOT have a legacy rule... so what happens when the child comes to college and doesn't get a bid?

Did they know at the time she ordered it that's what she was going to do with it?? I would NOT have let her order it if she said that's what it was for. She should know better.

fantASTic · #4 11-26-2008, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by OhTheAlphaTau

when we ordered our Homecoming letter shirts, we had an alum order one for her daughter! we do NOT have a legacy rule... so what happens when the child comes to college and doesn't get a bid?

How old is her daughter?

If she's like...young, then no big deal to me. But high school or older and that's a little inappropriate.

OhTheAlphaTau · #5 12-04-2008, 04:12 PM

Her daughter is probably 7 or 8. Maybe 9. We knew, but since she is an alum... we can't tell her no. My sisters told me that her daughter has a ton of letter shirts... I'm talking stitched letters.

#6 12-04-2008, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by OhTheAlphaTau

when we ordered our Homecoming letter shirts, we had an alum order one for her daughter! we do NOT have a legacy rule... so what happens when the child comes to college and doesn't get a bid?

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Originally Posted by OhTheAlphaTau

Her daughter is probably 7 or 8. Maybe 9. We knew, but since she is an alum... we can't tell her no. My sisters told me that her daughter has a ton of letter shirts... I'm talking stitched letters.

Are you really worrying about something that may or may not happen 10 years from now? Is it really worth worrying about?

I understand the importance of only letting members wear letters, but it's something you can't control since she already has em. If she orders shirts with you guys next time, just tell her "we'll order one for you, but your daughter does not get one."

It's not that big of a deal.

OhTheAlphaTau · #7 12-04-2008, 04:32 PM

It really isn't a big deal that she has them. I just wonder because we have already had problems with that in the past; girls who claim legacy and tell everyone that they already have a bid. We do not guarentee bids to anyone.

em_adpi · #8 12-05-2008, 12:16 AM

I think I posted this elsewhere on GC, but my 15 year old cousin came to Thanksgiving brunch wearing an AXO paintball shirt... I didn't get a chance to ask her where she got it, seeing as no one on either side of her family is an AXO...

NCadpi · #9 07-31-2011, 07:38 PM

This is a bit different but still makes me angry.

At my school a bunch of my friends in my major decided they would start their own sorority....but haven't made any effort to become recognized by the school or a council. I saw a picture of one of the girls wearing letters for this "sorority". I would try to tell this girl that you cant just pick three greek letters and wear them and be greek but I know it'd be futile.

Anyone else find this crazy?

MysticCat · #10 07-31-2011, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by NCadpi

This is a bit different but still makes me angry.

At my school a bunch of my friends in my major decided they would start their own sorority....but haven't made any effort to become recognized by the school or a council. I saw a picture of one of the girls wearing letters for this "sorority". I would try to tell this girl that you cant just pick three greek letters and wear them and be greek but I know it'd be futile.

Anyone else find this crazy?

Crazy, yes. Worth laughing at, yes. Getting angry about, no.

BadCat25 · #11 08-08-2011, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by NCadpi

This is a bit different but still makes me angry.

At my school a bunch of my friends in my major decided they would start their own sorority....but haven't made any effort to become recognized by the school or a council. I saw a picture of one of the girls wearing letters for this "sorority". I would try to tell this girl that you cant just pick three greek letters and wear them and be greek but I know it'd be futile.

Anyone else find this crazy?

So how do you think your sorority got started 100 years ago? A group of girls picked out three greek letters and decided to form a sorority. They didn't have a huge chapter house, were recognized by the school or council. I say more power to them. In 100 years they may have 200 chapters and be the sorority everyone wants to join. Don't be such a poop.

DrPhil · #12 08-08-2011, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BadCat25

So how do you think your sorority got started 100 years ago? A group of girls picked out three greek letters and decided to form a sorority. They didn't have a huge chapter house, were recognized by the school or council. I say more power to them. In 100 years they may have 200 chapters and be the sorority everyone wants to join. Don't be such a poop.

You make a good point except for the fact that:
1) not all of our GLOs were founded by "a group of women or men who picked out three Greek letters and decided to form a sorority or fraternity";
2) NCadpi is saying that these young ladies are trying to operate as a sorority (rather than a club or just group of friends) without attempting to take the proper steps to become formally recognized which can be a bad thing based on my experiences; and
3) founding GLOs should be somewhat different than it was 100+ years ago.

MysticCat · #13 08-08-2011, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by BadCat25

So how do you think your sorority got started 100 years ago? A group of girls picked out three greek letters and decided to form a sorority. They didn't have a huge chapter house, were recognized by the school or council.

Your lack of knowledge of Greek history is showing.

Her sorority got started 160 years ago when a group of girls, with the approval of the college, decided to form a literary society, the name of which, while derived from Greek, did not include Greek letters. The group didn't "pick out three Greek letters" until over 50 years later, when they decided to go national.

AnchorAlum · #14 07-31-2011, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by UNFSigmaChi

I was shopping the other day for a mothers day present when i saw this guy wearing a UF Greek Week shirt. So i was like hey man what Fraternity are you in, im a Sigma Chi?" Hes like what makes you think im in a fraternity??? Im like ummmm welll maybe that greek week shirt. And he says haha oh ya well im on the UF soccer team and one of my teammates left it at my place and I just wear it for the greek letters. So im like oh so your trying to act cool then huh?! He got a little pissed and was like hey i play soccer for UF, i am cool. Im like well would you get pissed if you saw someone wearing a UF soccer shirt who didn't play soccer for UF. Hes like hell ya i would....and then i laughed and was like well why the hell are you wearing a Greek week shirt when YOUR NOT GREEK!!! He didn't say anything and his friends laughed at him. It was so great! Anyways thought i had to share.

I stopped at uf...

katydidKD · #15 07-31-2011, 08:58 PM

Okay so what about when org's give out t-shirts with their letters? A guy I was hanging out with wore an Alpha Phi shirt that was given out by them when they were colonizing, and I was given Delta Sigma Phi stuff by their national reps. I don't wear it anymore because the colonization is done, but still, how about those loopholes?