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10-21-2004, 11:55 AM
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Baird's Manual is my favorite part of working in Greek Affairs. I tell my friends that I have a wealth of seemingly useless fraternity and sorority information. Working where I do only intensifies it!
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10-21-2004, 07:09 PM
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Imagine wearing those letters on your butt... 
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10-21-2004, 07:19 PM
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Maybe they were Alpha Sigma Sigma before "ASS" refered to anything other then a donkey???
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10-21-2004, 08:26 PM
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but the letters would be
ASS
today it would be awful, back then, probably not so much a problem
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10-21-2004, 11:02 PM
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What is the latest edition of Baird's? My school has the 20th edition, and it doesn't seem up-to-date.
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10-22-2004, 01:50 AM
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Is it just me, or does the Lambda Omega badge look an awful lot like a Chi Omega badge? Wonder if that ever led to any confusion?
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Similar yes, but I doubt any confusion. What ever became of Lambda Omega?
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10-22-2004, 02:03 AM
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What ever became of Lambda Omega?
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In September of 1933, Lambda Omega merged with Theta Upsilon. On May 6, 1962, Theta Upsilon was accepted into membership in Delta Zeta Sorority.
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10-22-2004, 02:06 AM
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Similar yes, but I doubt any confusion.
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As I said...no confusion -- Chi Omega never "merged" with any group.
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10-22-2004, 07:59 AM
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What is the latest edition of Baird's? My school has the 20th edition, and it doesn't seem up-to-date.
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The latest one was printed in I think 1991. They still have some left over and won't print another one until they are gone. The IFC bought the rights to it and took out a lot of stuff...the 1977 one is really the last decent one. Although in their defense, there seem to be so many new groups that putting it together now would require an insane amount of research.
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10-22-2004, 09:50 AM
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Something else I'm curious about - did any of these sororities use nicknames or shortened versions of their names? Like AEPhi for Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kappa for Kappa Kappa Gamma, etc. Beta Sigma Omicron, for instance, is quite a mouthful...
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10-22-2004, 10:16 AM
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The latest one was printed in I think 1991. They still have some left over and won't print another one until they are gone. The IFC bought the rights to it and took out a lot of stuff...the 1977 one is really the last decent one. Although in their defense, there seem to be so many new groups that putting it together now would require an insane amount of research.
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What kind of information did they take out?
Over the summer I found a local libary that had the 1991 edition and spent a good two hours just pouring over everything. I was able to find my grandmother's ASA chapter that how now closed. It was pretty cool.
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10-22-2004, 10:28 AM
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What kind of information did they take out?
Over the summer I found a local libary that had the 1991 edition and spent a good two hours just pouring over everything. I was able to find my grandmother's ASA chapter that how now closed. It was pretty cool.
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There was stuff about longtime local groups and fraternities/sororities that no longer exist.
Where did your grandmother go to school?
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10-22-2004, 01:15 PM
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Something else I'm curious about - did any of these sororities use nicknames or shortened versions of their names? Like AEPhi for Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kappa for Kappa Kappa Gamma, etc. Beta Sigma Omicron, for instance, is quite a mouthful...
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I think that Beta Sigma Omicron referred to themselves as Betas. I remember that old movie "Fraternity Row"and in the prologue, the narrator said that certain fraternities and sororites paired together for life. He listed them by full name but sometimes nickname. It struck me as odd that a fraternity would pair with Beta (Theta Pi). I realized much later that it was probably BSO.
Phi Omega Pi referred to themselves as POPs like sodas. I have one of their song books and it's pretty neat.
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10-22-2004, 01:34 PM
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Phi Omega Pi were also the Phi O Pi's -- we used to have a chapter of them here at Wisconsin and that's how they were referred to in the yearbook.
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10-22-2004, 02:39 PM
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I have two copies of the BSO new member manual. I would love to see a copy of their ritual, if only to find out if any of it is now part of ZTA ritual. We absorbed BSO back in the 60's I believe. The national was in financial trouble. The only chapters that closed were those that existed on campuses where ZTA already had a chapter.
I also have a 1920's edition of The Sorority Handbook by Ida Shaw Martin and a 1930's Bairds that I love to look through and learn.
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