[23916] in APO-L
[APO-L] Big/Lils and families
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernie Hsiung)
Thu Sep 11 01:55:09 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:53:40 +0000
Reply-To: Ernie Hsiung <ern_dawg@hotmail.com>
From: Ernie Hsiung <ern_dawg@hotmail.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>I'm a bit unclear about the families. These are normal families? How are
>the 3 circles (tight, close, far) arranged?
Iota Phi has always been a pretty large chapter - back in 1994 there were
probably 200-250 active members. Families in Iota Phi (Loose, Close and
Tight) are just a way for pledges and brothers to know other brothers easily
without being a lost face in the crowd. Also, during Revealing week, it's
also an easier way to all go to restaurants or have house potlucks, instead
of getting a reservation of 100 at Dennys :)
In Iota Phi during my experience, Revealing was (and still is, I think) a
*HUGE* deal - a whole week is devoted to this as a pledge, you get gifts and
cards and notes, there's practically a social event every day during the
week, and it's topped off by a huge ceremony where you have to guess your
Big Bro. It makes a lasting experience as a pledge, so much so that many
members still keep in touch with their big/lil bros, even when if they
become inactive or graduate.
iLFS, Ernie - Iota Phi alum and new Section 4 Webmaster!
(www.aposection4.org)
>
>Michael, how were people assigned to certain members of your family tree
>based on their gender [little bit gutsy to put it your way- by the
>way...your little island of testosterone was a bit bigger than you thought,
>having a large number of females each with a small amount of testoserone,
>but that's my technical side, unfortunately on a touchy subject :) ]?
>Males
>assigned to other few males left? The pledges turn around in the ceremony
>[ie "meet your sponsors"?] ? I've never seen that done in my chapter but
>perhaps because we are so small; multiple roles/brother. We did have that
>"meet your sponsors" thing but we never turned around & we alwayd added
>that
>the brotherhood collectively was the sponsor.
>
>LFS
>
>Michael Gallagher
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christina C" <christina.chou@gte.net>
>To: <APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [APO-L] Big/Lil
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Since I hardly ever post, I thought this would be a good time to. At my
>chapter (iota phi), each pledge fills out a questionaire and spends time
>with our family chairs (familes are a separate group within our chapter,
>since my chapter is so large, we have 3 groups (tight, loose, and close)
>and
>each family has a brother who is responsible in pairing up bigs and lils).
>After they spend time, we have a week we call secret week. during secret
>week, the new pledges spend time with the family (therefore getting to know
>the family better and the fraternity better) and the big bros give clues
>and
>gifts (if they wish) to the lil bros. these clues are suppose to help the
>pledge discover who their bigs are. After the week of fun, we have a day
>called REVEALING...in which the pledges get three chances to guess their
>big
>bro. its a lot of fun and a lot of mystery and trickery.
> >
> > Hope this helps?
> > iLFS,
> > Christina Chou
> > Iota Phi Alumni
> >
>
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>End of APO-L Digest - 9 Sep 2003 to 10 Sep 2003 (#2003-155)
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