APO VS. A PHI O

[Swagger]

In Southern California, there's another fraternity called Alpha Psi Omega, as well as Alpha Pi Omega. To avoid confusion, a lot of people refer Alpha Phi Omega as "A-Phi-O".

In Northern California, APsiO + APiO hasn't made any chapters up here yet. Therefore, APO is a more dominant term to refer to our fraternity.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Swagger

In Southern California, there's another fraternity called Alpha Psi Omega, as well as Alpha Pi Omega. To avoid confusion, a lot of people refer Alpha Phi Omega as "A-Phi-O".

In Northern California, APsiO + APiO hasn't made any chapters up here yet. Therefore, APO is a more dominant term to refer to our fraternity.

Cool!
I think for APsiO, since it is a Drama Honorary, it may be part of the fact that schools closer to Hollywood would be stronger in Drama. However both San Francisco State and Sacramento State have APsiO chapters. (http://www.alphapsiomega.org/chapter...cation&start=C).

(And I can't find any Alpha Pi Omega chapters in California (http://www.alphapiomega.org/Chapters.html)

I've seen chapters and areas change in one way or another as time goes on, really the only consistency is "A Phi Q" at the HBCUs.

[Pingyang]

Interesting. When I was active in Section 4 (NorCal) about ten years ago, most chapters used A-Phi-O when speaking and APO when writing. I can only remember one or two using APO. It was just tradition and had nothing to do (in any sort of direct way) with any other GLO.

The actives and recent alumni in chapters I still interact with there use A-Phi-O, but that's a small subset of the section. If the language has changed for other chapters in the section, I wonder what motivated that shift?