Embarrsing another GDI wearing Greek Shirts

[em_adpi]

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]

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?

[AnchorAlum]

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]

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?

[MysticCat]

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.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by katydidKD

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?

National orgs do this? WHY???? I can see giving out "I <3 XYZ" buttons or something like that, but actual shirts? I say if the group was stupid enough to do that, wear them whenever.

[katydidKD]

Originally Posted by 33girl

National orgs do this? WHY???? I can see giving out "I <3 XYZ" buttons or something like that, but actual shirts? I say if the group was stupid enough to do that, wear them whenever.

Advertising, having the opposite sex wear XYZ letters can/is perceived to be PR.

[xoxoAOII<3]

The only time I care about someone wearing letters for a sorority or fraternity they're not in is when they are block letters. The shirts we have for socials or philanthropies are okay for people to wear in my opinion. I know my boyfriend that is a Delta Sig wears AOII shirts that I've bought for him because they were just shirts that we had made for formals. I also have some delta sig shirts too, but I don't wear them anymore since our panhellanic has told all the sororities to stop wearing rush shirts for the fraternities or I heart [insert fraternity letters here].

Someone mentioned in an earlier post that they would cut there letters out of there shirts before throwing them away. I don't think I could do that. All of my letter shirts are important to me, and they have memories attached to them. I'll probably take all of my letter shirts and turn them into a quilt one day.

[BadCat25]

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]

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]

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.

[DrPhil]

I see what BadCat was trying to say despite the glitch.

We need to stop denying that all of our GLOs were founded by people who found some cool letters, cool colors, and said "I think we should make this happen!"

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I see what BadCat was trying to say despite the glitch.

We need to stop denying that all of our GLOs were founded by people who found some cool letters, cool colors, and said "I think we should make this happen!"

I see what he was trying to say, too. And there is some truth to it, but there's also some vast overgeneralization to it.

And some of us were founded without the letters.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

And some of us were founded without the letters.

Hence my sarcasm.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Hence my sarcasm.

Sorry Sarcasm, I'll be with you as soon as I've a little more caffeine.