New Member Class Names

[AlphaPhiBubbles]

Yea I think NPC is really discouraging it because it insinuates order and might cause hazing or something from older members? i'm not quite sure how it all works out...but i know my new chapter doesn't do it at all and my old chapter has been told to stop. I don't see what the big deal is cuz no matter what "fall 2003" is still younger than "fall 1985" which is the same as "Omega class" being older than "Alpha Zeta" and whatnot.....whatever.

[TigerLilly]

I was Iota class for PSP (my AXiD chapter doesn't name classes). We just inducted our Mu class.
We're still a young chapter -- 5 1/2 years old!

[UDZETA]

My new member class was Alpha Delta, and the newest is Alpha Eta.

[oceanphi01]

I was the Beta Alpha class. Yeay Tootie Frooties!!!!

[aephi alum]

My chapter's spring new member class will be the Pi new member class.

I was part of the Alpha new member class (chapter founders).

[Senusret I]

My APO chapter didn't name our pledge classes; we numbered them.

I was on Line 87. The most recent pledge class was Fall 2003 - Line 96. (That means my five year anniversary is next year.)

My APhiA chapter uses neither greek letters nor numbers....I was just on the Spring 2003 line.

[AlphaXi4983]

we use the greek letters....

i was in the Psi class - i pledged in spring 2002

we just initated the Alpha Beta class earlier this month

[DolphinChicaDDD]

ALPHA CLASS- WHOO-HOO FOUNDERS!!
We just initiated Gamma Class, which upset some of us, because we were the Gamma Class of our local sorority.

But, nevertheless, we are excited to finally get to DELTA!!!

[Lady Pi Phi]

I was pledge class Tau. I believe we had just initiated pledge class Chi.

[FAUNikki]

We are not supposed to use Pledge Classes, but we do it for our own knowledge.
I am the Alpha Mu class. Our next ladies (during the spring) will be Alpha Omicron.
My chapter was founded in 1991.
It's weird because there is another sorority on campus who was founded same month and year as us and they just did their Omega Class.
We have a much shorter new member period, so that is probably why.

[33girl]

We never named our classes, even before NPC started discouraging it - we were just Fall 89 or Spring 92 or whatever. Easier to remember. Bloomsburg and I think Ship use "20th pledge class" and so on - I could never remember that.

If hazing due to seniority is a problem I don't think it will go away just by getting rid of saying "the Alpha Beta pledge class."

[Lady Pi Phi]

We don't use the class names, it's more of a way to remember how many classes we have had.

[GeekyPenguin]

We were talking about this at our Regional Leadership Conference and a lot of us were agreeing how easy it is to refer to classes by name - "OK, Beta Psi's housing payments are due in January, anybody from Beta Chi who hasn't paid their building fund yet is overdue and will be assesed, etc, etc, etc." I see no problem with doing this and for a chapter like ours it's much easier than saying "Juniors, seniors, sophomores, etc" because hardly anyone joins as a freshman.

[EagleChick19]

Originally posted by 33girl
We never named our classes, even before NPC started discouraging it - we were just Fall 89 or Spring 92 or whatever. Easier to remember. Bloomsburg and I think Ship use "20th pledge class" and so on - I could never remember that.

If hazing due to seniority is a problem I don't think it will go away just by getting rid of saying "the Alpha Beta pledge class."

33,

Lock Haven uses the semester and the year for pledge class namings. I don't like the Greek letters.

[honeychile]

I have honestly never heard of this practice!! The big thing we had was our Initiation number.