Non AKAs and para

[Ideal08]

Sorors, I've never come across anyone in our letters, but we did see a homeless man once, with a DST shirt on, and it belonged to a Neo, we peeped the date on the sleeve!! This was a couple of years ago, but we were all tripping because by the date on the shirt, the girl had JUST crossed. How he got his hands on that shirt still remains a mystery. I told my roommate at the time, who's a Delta, and she just shook her head.

[Discogoddess]

Parents/children/nieces/spouses wearing "my....is a...." gear: I feel like this: if you don't belong to the group, don't sport the para! I saw a man wearing a "my wife is an AKA" hat at another chapter's function, and I was like "why is he holding his wife's org. so hard?" Get your own!!!!

As for little kids, I think that it's fine for them to learn about the orgs. and have respect for them, aspire to join them even, but gear is too much for me, especially on some of the these quick-to-develop young girls and boys.

What to do when coming across a non-member wearing para: I don't believe any self-respecting soror or Greek should ever be in the business of "snatching" para off of people. What does that prove? Or solve? That Greeks are good gang-banging candidates?

[PositivelyAKA]

i think its cute to see a little girl in a my mommy's an AKA shirt, i sent my baby niece a HU Bison shirt, she looked so adorable, i would cry tears of joy if oneday she actually went to HU. i guess its a preference thing. i don't see the harm in that, but a my boyfriend is an alpha shirt or something like that is just plain ridiculous to me when you could be sporting your own greek wear. i do let my boyfriend carry my umbrella when it rains because he's walking me to my car or a restaurante, he's a gentleman and that umbrella is heavy but that's the extent of it. everybody knows i'm the pretty girl in pink and green with my man treating me like the queen that i am.

[Shelacious]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
Parents/children/nieces/spouses wearing "my....is a...." gear: I feel like this: if you don't belong to the group, don't sport the para!

I hope you don't mind if I post on your board ladies. I just had to chime in because I am not overly enamoured of adults wearing these types of gear, although I don't have an issue with children 5 and under wearing a "my...is a...(nickname of the org., i.e. Zeta). I do NOT want to see the greek letters of ZPB on the shirt.

My mother and I took those adult shirts to the next level, though. We both had identical shirts made at Boule saying "my mother is a ZPB" and "my daughter is a ZPB". We wore them on the same day a few months back and it was SO CUTE!



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[onesavvydiva]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
[b]:

As for little kids, I think that it's fine for them to learn about the orgs. and have respect for them, aspire to join them even, but gear is too much for me, especially on some of the these quick-to-develop young girls and boys.B]

LOL @ Discogoddess...is that a nice way of saying "fast-behind, grown ass kids?"

[AKA2D '91]

The only 'nalia I have seen for kids is for those newborns to toddlers, THAT IS CUTE!


I have not seen anything for those older than that...

The earliest 'nalia or close to 'nalia, I guess I received was a shirt that my mother's chapter had for the kids (boys AND girls). I was 7 or 8. If I remember correctly, AKA was on the BACK and our colors were GREEN and WHITE! Our groups name was on the front. Folks always thought AKA meant...ALSO KNOWN AS...

We had our own group ...we all got together once a month to do things together....bowl, skate, etc. We were ONLY allowed to wear our shirts on those occasions!

Even our father's had their own "group", but they did not have shirts...

[Skeewee15]

I am a television reporter who used to work for a station in Houston. One day I look up on on the 5 o'clock news and there one of the white reporters is SPORTING MY AKA UMBRELLA. She had gotten it from under my desk on her way out the door. I was livid! When she returned I confronted her about it and she just said well, it was raining, what's the big deal. She was a Tri Delta. They were each others stuff, so she didn't see the big deal. (She sees now though)

[PositivelyAKA]

Originally posted by Skeewee15:
I am a television reporter who used to work for a station in Houston. One day I look up on on the 5 o'clock news and there one of the white reporters is SPORTING MY AKA UMBRELLA. She had gotten it from under my desk on her way out the door. I was livid! When she returned I confronted her about it and she just said well, it was raining, what's the big deal. She was a Tri Delta. They were each others stuff, so she didn't see the big deal. (She sees now though)

she took your umbrella without asking you, now that in itself is really disrespectful, that is some unprofessional and crazy stuff. i bet she would have flipped if you had borrowed her wallet, i mean after all you were hungry

[DELTABRAT]

Hay Ladies and Gents:

Yeah, the cute shirts that say my mom is a/an...are cute if the kids are small. But if they are like 20, that's not okay. Similarly, I am not down with the my wife/boyfiriend/husband is a/an...that's tacky. Pledge or shut up about it.

I think some peope just don't know. I saw a woman who was going to buy her son a Phi Beta Sigma shirt at a stepshow because he liked the way they stepped. He was like 15 years and big. I politely told her she may want to re-think her purchase becasue he may easily be mistaken for a frat member and if challenged/pressed/questioned, and he is like what?, the repercussions may not be good. She listened and opted to buy him nothing.

Similarly there was a girl at the SAME stepshow who was wearing 'nalia. We were neos (crossed that morning)and my Sands went up to her (you know how you go up to EVERY Soror when you first cross, I mean EVERY one out of like hundreds) and she walked up to a girl and was like "Hey Soror" the girl was like "Hey." She asked what chapter she was from and she said ours. My Sands was like, hmmm. When did you cross, she said 1990
(you know when people can't phrase it right it is suspect). There was no 1990 line. We quielty and politely asked her for the 'nalia she had while explaining why (something to the effect of others may not be as nice as we were being). I wouldnt' say "stripped her down" but she had bought like, keychains, t-shirts, lavaliers, sholaces, pictures, hats, socks, I mean she was planning to be out! Her stuff looked cute on me too

[This message has been edited by DELTABRAT (edited January 10, 2001).]

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by DELTABRAT:
but she had bought like, keychains, t-shirts, lavaliers, sholaces, pictures, hats, socks, I mean she was planning to be out! Her stuff looked cute on me too

[This message has been edited by DELTABRAT (edited January 10, 2001).]

ROTFLMAO! OH MY GOSH
GIRL, YOU ALL WERE RUTHLESS! LOL

[AKAtude]

Are there any members of Zeta Phi Beta or Phi Beta Sigma reading this post, please respond to this question:

I know that your respective organizations are truly brothers and sisters, but do you also swap letters? I remember my senior year in college, the Zeta's and Sigma's wore t-shirts with the other organization's letters for the day. Does that happen anywhere else?

[Shelacious]

Originally posted by AKAtude:

I know that your respective organizations are truly brothers and sisters, but do you also swap letters?

This seems to depend on the campus. Traditionally, since we share PHI BETA, Frat and Sorors will often wear ZPBS tees and shirts. Without specific cause, however (maybe a swap day was for a purpose?), we shouldn't be swapping letters. We don't learn the meaning of each other's letters, so why should I be wearing theirs on my shirt? Once again, this seems to depend more on the campus, but this practice is not encouraged by the Zeta national body.


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[AKA2D '91]

I remember seeing a picture from my initating chapter which read APHIAKA on the T-shirt. I guess it was from some kind of activity or event... I think it was Springfest or somthing... WOULD THAT BE APPROPRIATE....we never did that while we were undergrads....

....maybe it's a "NEW SCHOOL" thing... they seem to be doing EVERYTHING these days...

[suntzu1963]

If you see her again, please do my bruhs and myself (ALONG WITH ALL GREEKS) a favor and ask her to kindly remove that para and why she should. That is VERY VERY disrespectful! And that goes for anyone that just wears it cause its "cute" or "looks good"! MUCH LUV TO ALL GREEKS!!!!!

Originally posted by casualty08:
Ok sorors I have a little story. A couple a years ago a soror in my chapter decided that she had no need for some of her nalia that instead of giving it to some sorors, she threw them away. Why disregarded those items are beyond me, but she felt that they were old. Anyway a week later, we saw a foreign exchange student sporting her nalia. Well of course that didn't sit well with us. So one of my sorors chased the girl down and confiscated the nalia. Luckily she explained to the girl the reasons why she took the bag from her. Also just last week at work I spotted a girl wearing an Iota Phi Theta sweatshirt. I don't know if it was her boyfriends but she should have been ashamed of herself.

[Rain Man]

Question: How do you feel about non-AKAs who wear T-shirts given out by the sorority saying things like: "Alpha Kappa Alpha Young Scholar"?

Lemme explain: Back in 1986 I was selected among several middle school students to attend an Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholarship Tea hosted by the Alpha Sigma Omega chapter of AKA. I received, among other things, a mayor's citation, and a T-shirt that said something along the lines of "Alpha Kappa Alpha Scholar"; it was white with green lettering. Needless to say, I lost the shirt a long time ago, plus I only wore it maybe twice to begin with--the fact it was a women's organization must not have sat too well with me. OTOH, I saw a woman in college (about 6 years ago) who was a non-AKA wearing one of those AKA scholar shirts. She said a lot of AKAs forced her to give up the shirt, but she refused, saying that AKA alumnae gave her the shirt to begin with. What about situations like that?

Rain Man