The history of sororities - Page 5

NutBrnHair · #1 11-10-2003, 11:12 AM

Baird's is 1200 pages and about $80 a book -- if they included all locals, no one would be able to pick up the book!

WCUgirl · #2 11-10-2003, 11:18 AM

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Originally posted by PsychTau
AXiD670.....do you know of an explanation as to why you guys switched to "Fraternity"? (Unless it's private, of course!) It is somewhat of an interesting switch, especially the timing.

PsychTau

Um, I think I know this...deep down in the dark recesses of my brain...

I really can't remember. I do feel like I should know this, but I just don't. Maybe I was never told.

Any other AZD's out there know?

33girl · #3 11-10-2003, 11:35 AM

I don't think they've had a new Baird's since 1991, and that one sucked. The NIC bought it and took out a lot of the local stuff. I think at this point they are none too anxious to gather info on all the multicultural/Asian/Latino-a GLOs that have sprung up.

The old-old ones are the most interesting.

sueali · #4 11-10-2003, 12:47 PM

I posted the question when sigma kappa started to use the word sorority (not before GPB obviously, but I'm curious when we adopted it) on our members on board, so hopefully I'll get an answer.

wptw · #5 11-10-2003, 02:37 PM

Baird's always tried to include the local groups. Their performance is a bit spotty though. Understandably so. And of course as 33girl mentioned, once the NIC got a hold of Baird’s the locals and multiculturals didn’t stand a chance. Now the multiculturals and newer locals I don’t much care about – no offense. But those old locals are a very important part of our histories and I’m sorry to see their stories dropped. Oh well, history is written by the victors I guess. But I can confirm that a group called Phi Nu has not appeared in any edition of Baird's.

That may or may not be significant. If PhiNuBlue can substantiate founding date and continuous existence, I say she's got a legit claim. And I have to admit, I’m rooting for her.

Of course, then the NPC semantics machine will kick into overdrive and everyone will readjust their long list of caveats and qualifiers that let them still claim they were “first”.

wptw

sherbertlemons · #6 11-10-2003, 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by wptw
Of course, then the NPC semantics machine will kick into overdrive and everyone will readjust their long list of caveats and qualifiers that let them still claim they were “first”.

*lol*

sueali · #7 11-10-2003, 04:31 PM

If anyone is interested there is a phi nu badge on ebay (i think) maybe phinublue can let us know.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=52573

sueali · #8 11-10-2003, 06:03 PM

Sigma Kappa sorority did not incorporate the word sorority until we expanded beyond Colby College and were incorporated into the state of Maine in 1904.

breathesgelatin · #9 11-10-2003, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by sueali
Sigma Kappa sorority did not incorporate the word sorority until we expanded beyond Colby College and were incorporated into the state Maine in 1904.

Thanks for the info!

PhiNuBlue · #10 11-10-2003, 06:14 PM

Thanks for the support. :-) I understand a little better where it is all coming from. As for more info on Phi Nu, we really aren't on the web...I've looked a lot. Our site is underconstruction, but I really don't have control over it. I'm the historian. However I can give suggestions. I'm not for sure when we became social/service but I'm sure I have the dates somewhere.

breathesgelatin · #11 11-10-2003, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by PhiNuBlue
Thanks for the support. :-) I understand a little better where it is all coming from. As for more info on Phi Nu, we really aren't on the web...I've looked a lot. Our site is underconstruction, but I really don't have control over it. I'm the historian. However I can give suggestions. I'm not for sure when we became social/service but I'm sure I have the dates somewhere.

I'd be really interested to hear more about your sorority. I don't think any of us wanted to attack you, it's just that some of us felt attacked. Unfortunately because most of national Greek orgs are arranged into councils (NIC, NPC, NPHC, NALFO), we tend to know facts about nationals but not locals. And most of our firsts are measured as the first national this that or the other.

GeekyPenguin · #12 11-10-2003, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by sueali
Sigma Kappa sorority did not incorporate the word sorority until we expanded beyond Colby College and were incorporated into the state of Maine in 1904.

Yay, you found it! I tried to find the earlier thread that was discussed in, but just gave up because I kept searching for "phi" instead of "phi*" - good job!

MTSUGURL · #13 11-10-2003, 06:35 PM

I would have been surprised if Baird's included locals. I was surprised to learn that it once did! I don't see how you could keep them all straight.

That's a beautiful badge.

#14 11-10-2003, 09:14 PM

Was anyone else the first to jack a fraternity's name from them like we did?!!!

Way to go Alpha Delta Phi (Pi, whatever!!!)

(Just being silly, the original greek letters of ADPi were Alpha Delta Phi, fits a little bit better with the Adelphean society I guess, but after we discovered there was already a fraternity named that, we changed it. OOPS, our bad!!)
Bru hahahaha

chideltjen · #15 11-10-2003, 10:32 PM

Some Chi Delta Sac State History/Myths/Rumours...

We didn't necessarily "jack" a fraternity's letters, just switched them.
When I was a delphia/new member, an older member told me that when Delta Chi used to have lil sisters, they would let the lil sisters wear their letters inside out... hense reading Chi Delta. Whether that had some influence on what we decided to later call ourselves hasn't been proven, but all of our history is on www.chidelta.com.
So while we haven't been around for more than 20 years as a social org for women, the name Chi Delphia/Delphia etc has been around a lot longer.

edited because for some reason i could not spell 'fraternity' correctly...