Alpha Chi Omega and Phi Mu - Arkansas

[gee_ess]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I'm waiting to see sketches of the new houses. If they are anything like AOPi's new house, they're going to be amazing!

Do they even have house sketches or, for that matter, land? I would be surprised if they were that far along, but I would love it if they were.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

This is lovely: Arkansas Chi O's wearing Phi Mu shirts and making pretty darn good quatrefoils in front of their house:

Could this be the Phi Mu colonization team and they just happen to be recruiting out of the Chi Omega house?

[faithful.sister]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Could this be the Phi Mu colonization team and they just happen to be recruiting out of the Chi Omega house?

These women are Arkansas Chi Omegas. Our recruitment team took the photo.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by faithful.sister

These women are Arkansas Chi Omegas. Our recruitment team took the photo.

We posted at the same time.

Why are they representing Phi Mu?

[cas]

They are definitely Chi Omegas. The Phi Mu recruitment team is not that large and they are also handing out the tanks at their table.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by TSteven

We posted at the same time.

Why are they representing Phi Mu?

Welcoming them to the Arkansas PH?????? I think it's nice of them to do that. Very PH oriented.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Welcoming them to the Arkansas PH?????? I think it's nice of them to do that. Very PH oriented.

Well, I guess that is one way to look at it.

I will leave it to the Chi Omegas to confirm the Chi Omega protocol of Chi Omega members wearing other NPC letters and throwing up other NPC signs. And the Phi Mus can confirm the appropriateness of non Phi Mu members - and in this case, initiated members of another NPC sorority - wearing Phi Mu letters etc. But if they are both fine with it, then more power to them.

In the mean time, Woo Pig Sooie! Assuming it is ok for a Wildcat to say that.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I suppose the caption on facebook identifying them as Chi Os could have been incorrect, but I can't believe members of the Phi Mu HQ team would be photographed barefoot...

But Arkansas Chi Omegas would? Regardless of who they are, it gets hot in Arkansas this time of year and I expect this was an unplanned photo opportunity. And many Southerners, myself included, like to go barefoot at times.

For what it is worth, like FSUZeta I have seen general panhellenic shirts that say something like “Arkansas Panhellenic welcomes Phi Mu". But these shirts are not like that. They are rather straight up “Phi Mu”.

As such, I don’t think it is normal for members of one sorority to wear the letters (in their colors) of another sorority – even if they are written out. Both groups may have rules and protocol about wearing letters. And why would members of one group be giving out another group’s “hand sign”? Maybe they are trying to show some sort support, but it just seems odd to me.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Yes. I know it's hot for everyone, but they're undergrads at a 117-year-old chapter, not grown women alumnae founding a colony on an ultracompetitive campus.

Sure, but those times don't include SEC rush! (Unless you are a Mizzou DG at a luau-themed pref.) Rush is on right now for Phi Mu and AXO. The Chi Omegas are perfectly appropriate because they are just being PH boosters, not conducting a rush.

If a colonizing consultant at UA poses for a picture in letters in this sort of dishabille prior to bid day, I'll eat my words. But I doubt it will happen. They're going to look smashing every second they are in public, whether dressed up or down.

I think it's great that on a very traditional campus, the oldest chapter would do what it could to promote and support the new kids.

I have noticed that many NPC colonization teams often include members from nearby chapters as well as recent graduates. So it is not unusual to see members of the colonization team include members similar in age to the campus demographics. Which is why I first asked if these women might be members of the Phi Mu team.

Again, if Chi Omegas and Phi Mus don’t have a problem with this, then as I said before, more power to them both.

By the way, was this some sort of campus wide (i.e. campus panhellenic) support? Did any other chapters (including Chi Omega) do the same for Alpha Chi Omega?

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

All the houses got pledge classes of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY WOMEN. There is no possible way to know whether you "really love" that many potential friends unless you're judging them on their (newly adopted) reputation. I know the chapters do an incredible job, but no one in those classes is even going to know 100% of her pledge sisters beyond a superficial level at initiation. No one can. It's a real feat just to learn their names, majors, and hometowns. And that's not even considering the upperclassmen.

I'm a generation older than the Arkansas NMs, and I bet _I_ could find a handful of ladies in any of those pledge classes whose company I really enjoyed. If some freshman told me in the third week of school that she couldn't find friends in her randomly selected DORM of 300-odd people, I'd tell her that that meant it was her own fault. And here we're talking about a hand-picked group with a shared interest in SEC Greek life. There is no freaking way that any UA freshman who tried couldn't find BFFs in any pledge class.

Brava!!! Sticky worthy!