[23917] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Big/Lils and families
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael shulman)
Thu Sep 11 10:06:18 2003
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:05:50 -0400
Reply-To: michael shulman <mikeinapo@hotmail.com>
From: michael shulman <mikeinapo@hotmail.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
Michael,
We've done twins (and once, triplets), but we try to stay away from it.. it
generally outs too much strain on the big.
I know of some chapters that got involved alumni to have littles during
crunches. any thoughts?
Shulman
>From: Ernie Hsiung <ern_dawg@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Ernie Hsiung <ern_dawg@hotmail.com>
>To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>Subject: [APO-L] Big/Lils and families
>Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 05:53:40 +0000
>
>>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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