Name something unique/different about YOUR GLO

sairose · #1 12-31-2003, 01:22 AM

I see all kinds of threads about "my sorority was the first to do this..." and "my fraternity was the first to blah blah" and I love reading them. So along the same lines....

Name one thing that makes your group stand out from the others. Maybe you have colors that no other group has, or a very unique mascot. Maybe something your group does is really different from how everyone else does it. Be creative! I love learning odd facts about other GLOs.

I'll start!

SAI is a women's music fraternity. HOWEVER, honorary members can be men!

Also, I *believe* ours is one of the only GLOs to have a badge that incorporates the new member/pledge pin!

This is our badge. The MIT(new member) pin is just the pan pipes.

#2 12-31-2003, 01:30 AM

AFAIK, no other NPC sorority has the colors red, buff, and green (I and I RASTAFAR-I, if you will) and if I'm not mistaken the squirrel mascot is unique to Alpha Gamma Delta.

Rudey · #3 12-31-2003, 01:35 AM

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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
AFAIK, no other NPC sorority has the colors red, buff, and green (I and I RASTAFAR-I, if you will) and if I'm not mistaken the squirrel mascot is unique to Alpha Gamma Delta.

Isn't that also the colors of the gay pride flag?

-Rudey
--Not that there's anything wrong with that.

sairose · #4 12-31-2003, 01:40 AM

I thought the gay pride flag was rainbow.

#5 12-31-2003, 01:41 AM

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Originally posted by Rudey
Isn't that also the colors of the gay pride flag?

-Rudey
--Not that there's anything wrong with that.

The gay pride flags that I've seen and know are rainbow and multi-colored. Not just red, buff, and green.

GeekyPenguin · #6 12-31-2003, 01:42 AM

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Originally posted by sairose
Also, I *believe* ours is one of the only GLOs to have a badge that incorporates the new member/pledge pin!

This is our badge. The MIT(new member) pin is just the pan pipes.

Actually a lot of GLOs have this - Phi Mu comes to mind as one. Our pledge pin is designed to evoke our badge.

Anyway, our colors of double brown (brown and mode) are unique.

Glitter650 · #7 12-31-2003, 01:44 AM

PHi SIg is the only NPC soror. to use the sphinx....

PhiPsiRuss · #8 12-31-2003, 01:55 AM

Phi Psi was the first fraternity founded for higher ideals. This earned us the name, from other fraternities, of "The Noble Fraternity." We were also the first fraternity founded as a national fraternity, and we were the first founded as non-sectarian.

sairose · #9 12-31-2003, 01:59 AM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
Actually a lot of GLOs have this - Phi Mu comes to mind as one. Our pledge pin is designed to evoke our badge.

Oops--I should have clarified what I meant.

On the SAI badge, the pan pipes seen are EXACTLY what the pledge pin is. Meaning, the pledge pin is DIRECTLY incorporated into the badge. I haven't seen another sorority use the EXACT pledge pin in their badge, if this makes any sense.

GeekyPenguin · #10 12-31-2003, 02:12 AM

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Originally posted by sairose
Oops--I should have clarified what I meant.

On the SAI badge, the pan pipes seen are EXACTLY what the pledge pin is. Meaning, the pledge pin is DIRECTLY incorporated into the badge. I haven't seen another sorority use the EXACT pledge pin in their badge, if this makes any sense.

It does - but Alpha Chi Omega wears their pledge pin as part of their badge - so again, not unique.

sairose · #11 12-31-2003, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
It does - but Alpha Chi Omega wears their pledge pin as part of their badge - so again, not unique.

Yes I know, but don't they wear the pledge pin along with their badge? Or am I thinking of something else. We don't wear our pledge pin along WITH the badge; what I meant was that the badge is an extension of our pledge pin, per se. It has the exact same pipes of pan, but surrounded by the pearls and SAI letters. And I could be wrong, too...but from my research, I haven't found another sorority badge that had a piece of the pledge pin on the member's badge.

kddani · #12 12-31-2003, 02:37 AM

i think this badge thing has been discussed before, i want to do a search but search doesn't seem to be working.

KD is the only group (that I know of) that has 2 different pledge pins. One you get at the beginning of the new member period, the other shortly before initiation.

WhiteDaisy128 · #13 12-31-2003, 03:41 AM

Don't have much time now, but the DG pledge pin is a shield bearing the letters Pi Alpha. On our anchor badge, the same shield is used, only with the letters Delta Gamma. The white shield is the same though.

I'll type some unique stuff about DG later...it's too late now!!

KillarneyRose · #14 12-31-2003, 03:59 AM

Not sure if this is unique only to Delta Zeta, but every, single aspect of our badge means something to us. That is why we don't have a choice of metals, jewels, etc when we order them.

This is a great thread, sairose! I love learning things about other sororities

sugar and spice · #15 12-31-2003, 04:20 AM

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Originally posted by kddani

KD is the only group (that I know of) that has 2 different pledge pins. One you get at the beginning of the new member period, the other shortly before initiation.

Tri Delta has this too.

Tri Delta is the only NPC sorority, and the only GLO that I know of, to use the dolphin as mascot.

It is one of the few NPC sororities to use its mascot since the the beginning of the sorority's history. (For those of us Tri Delts who were looking for the answer of when we adopted the use of the dolphin, I found it -- it was an unofficial symbol of the sorority from the beginning, and Sarah Ida Shaw used it in jewelry she gave to the national officers and the editor of the Trident.

As far as I know we are the only sorority to use our jewel, the pearl, not only as a jewel but as a symbol. (I know other sororities have symbolic meanings behind their jewels, but the jewel isn't used as a symbol associated with that group per se.)

For a while we were the only NPC sorority to have a policy preventing discrimination on sexual orientation -- now Phi Sigma Sigma has joined us.

We are the only GLO I know of that uses Poseidon as a patron.