Dirty Rushers :(

[Greek_or_Geek?]

Originally Posted by carnation

Do any NPCs have hand signs?

Many collegians have come up with them. The national or international groups I am more familiar with have strongly discouraged their use.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by carnation

Do any NPCs have hand signs?

Short list...

Delta for DDD
KD with adding an extra finger from aformentioned delta
Zeta crown
XO with pointer fingers and thumb
AXO with same and making point of A at top

I'm sure there's more...check the bid day pics thread

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek?

Many collegians have come up with them. The national or international groups I am more familiar with have strongly discouraged their use.

I've heard that too, but nobody's ever explained why...

[DeltaBetaBaby]

What this active sorority member has done is potentially very, very hurtful to the OP's friend. If friend doesn't get a bid from XYZ, she is going to be crushed far beyond how she'd feel if she hadn't been promised a bid.

I don't think it's fair to say this is the behavior of one woman and write it off. It's not like she saw one woman getting rowdy in a bar or one woman slacking off in class. She is aware of one woman playing a very mean game with her friend. I don't see how that could NOT influence her opinion of XYZ.

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek?

Many collegians have come up with them. The national or international groups I am more familiar with have strongly discouraged their use.

I ranted on this in another thread (I think I hijacked SAI), but I immediately see "gang sign" when people throw up their hand signs in bid day pics. I am most definitely not the only one.

I also noticed one group's that looked like the ASL sign for "vagina" to me.

So yeah, I think I know why groups don't want their girls doing this in all of their pictures.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I also noticed one group's that looked like the ASL sign for "vagina" to me.

Well now I'm curious! It's probably a bad idea to post it here, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to know to which sign you're referring.

ETA: Google is my friend. I know the sign you're talking about now.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

Well now I'm curious! It's probably a bad idea to post it here, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to know to which sign you're referring.

ETA: Google is my friend. I know the sign you're talking about now.

I took ASL when I went there. My prof ranted about it on the first day and made sure we made it round... Also when I joined KD, the older students made sure we didn't make "dirty deltas" so that it didn't mean something inappropriate in ASL. A lot of women in my chapter took ASL, I blame it being across the street from the house.


To be more on the sorority topic: Some groups signs make sense and you can tell what they are making. ADPi's diamond sign makes sense when you know it is for ADPi. Other NPC sororities have come up with hand signs that look really awkward or are almost unintelligible until it is explained to you. There are some where the symbol is too complicated or it just looks awkward.

IMO: Handsigns can be cute. There are some pinned by HQ that I think are adorable. However, a picture of a chapter looking polished and smiling looks much more polished and professional vs a chapter where everyone is doing the symbol and it just looks busy. I never liked the pictures of my chapter or even a pledge class all doing the symbol because it was just too much all at once. The pictures where we just smiled looked tons better.