Track boys make their OWN letters -_-

[rufio]

Originally Posted by Langox510x

I mean maybe they'll only promote Greek life.

i disagree. Independents are stupid people about greek life. if they see anyone misbehaving in greek letters it only brings bad PR to our community, even if they're not really greek. but hey, what can you do about it.

[ASTalumna06]

When I was active on my campus, we had a sports team do the same thing. It might have been the hockey team, but I can't remember. They made up t-shirts, hats, the works. The letters they chose stood for something incredibly stupid (on purpose), and all of the Greeks basically laughed at them for doing it. After about a year, I never saw anyone wearing those letters again.

Remember, they don't have a system to keep this thing going. Chances are this will fade away into nothing really fast.

[GammaPhi88]

Take it as a compliment! Obviously they like greeks if they're going around imitating them. Its basically like they're telling you that you've done something right.

[aephi alum]

As long as they're not claiming to be a fraternity, and they're not wearing letters belonging to an actual GLO, what's the big deal?

There were a few groups at my school that adopted letters. The Lecture Series Committee was Lambda Sigma Chi; SIPB (Student Information Processing Board - nowhere near as stuffy as it sounds!) was Sigma Pi Beta. Everyone on campus knew they were not actual GLOs; any clueless freshmen were quickly clued in.

[KappaKittyCat]

The crew team on a friend's campus made "Greek" shirts that said PPP. I thought it was hilarious.

[Kansas City]

Originally Posted by KappaKittyCat

The crew team on a friend's campus made "Greek" shirts that said PPP. I thought it was hilarious.

Hilarious! Was their song chapter song "Row Row Row your boat?"

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KappaKittyCat

The crew team on a friend's campus made "Greek" shirts that said PPP. I thought it was hilarious.

Somebody paid attention during "Revenge of the Nerds."

[KSUViolet06]

It's a free country. Yeah, it's kind of silly, but whatever.

[AlphaDeltaDelta]

A couple of actives in my fraternity live in the Cal ski and snowboard club how which calls itself Sigma Kappa Iota and I've never heard a single person here even comment on their use of Greek letters. I guess people in Berkeley are just a lot less uptight than other people.

[IowaMullet]

Originally Posted by AlphaDeltaDelta

I guess people in Berkeley are just a lot less uptight than other people.

Or maybe just too stoned to care.

[rufio]

cal folks are too busy fighting "the man" to care about skiing

[AlphaDeltaDelta]

Cal hasn't been hippie for almost 30 years. Campus is much, much different than the rest of the city of Berkeley, and the fraternities here enjoy going to wherever the hippies are gathering and making fun of them. If you guys heard about the tree sitting hippies, when they finally cut the trees down and made the hippies leave, a bunch of the fraternities (including mine) showed up with signs saying "free firewood" and other similar anti-hippie rhetoric. Please speak from experience instead of just ridiculous stereotypes of places.

[m65863]

If being a "TBZ" makes them feel even more united, good for them. They work just as hard to be a team as fraternity and sororities members do.

[Langox510x]

Why don't you just go to your local university store and purchase a track jacket?

[LightBulb]

Originally Posted by gphifoxAL

Does anyone else get really offended by this kind of thing?

Nah, I think it's fun.