As a curious foreigner, the culture of fraternity/sorority houses is all very alien to me, but the use of the Greek alphabet seems almost universal.
Is there an origin story for this?
Do the particular letters chosen mean anything?
How does a house pick what “its” title will be, and do they have to claim it so that no other house uses it? Or is it one of these “lost to time” things?
Thanks!
[Chose “other” but i guess it’s sort of sociology!]
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All this talk and not a single mention of how all the frats etc. are knock-offs of freemasonry, intended to prep the students for membership in that cult?
Others are right about the greek letters being part of mottoes etc. but it also goes deeper than that, as with many secret societies etc. (since most are gnostic to some degree, and they draw on freemasonry in large part.) there’s idolizing of the old greek culture, particularly pythagoras and his elitist group, so the greek letter stuff is also a tribute to that as well.
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