New College Fraternity thread

slickwilly if you still read here i would like to trade rituals possibly or see if you have one that i would like to have thanks

I currently am studing fraternity and sorority rituals, I have several. if anyone would like to trade I can be contacted through. thesambarone@yahoo.com.

If they are throwing around a password or motto so loosely, that you, an unitiated person hears it, it must not be that important. I was in a frat (not SAE), and sometimes individual houses pick up slang, that is just slang, and is not really secret or part of any ritual. All sorts of people who live or work close together may have their own slang like people who work in an office together or people who live in a dorm together.

In my frat's chapter, we had slang words like humo (an unattractive woman) and berto (low quality marijuanna.) To the best of my knowledge, other chapters of my fraternity and other fraternity houses did not use these words. We also had nicknames for eachother that were not secret like Billy Goat and Shlonger. If you heard words like this being thrown around, you might think it was part of some type secret code or ritual, when it really was not.

Chances are you did not hear the SAE passwords, even though the SAE passwords are supposedly well known as I once heard what they were.

So what does the "phi alpha" mean in SAE circles? I've seen it scrawled on a dirty car recently, a car belonging to an SAE alumni. Just curious what it means.

I have a feeling it means "Hey, I got laid last night!"

If you look closely at the SAE badge, beneath the feet of Minerva and a Lion you should see the greek letters Phi Alpha, to my understanding it has a lot to do with their pledge induction ritual and is commonly used as a greeting. Just as the Sigma Chi motto "In Hoc Signo Vinces" is used as a common salutaion amongst their brotherhood, normally they just shorten it to "In Hoc" pronounced "Ahn Hawk"

"In Hoc" is not pronounced "Ahn Hawk." Rather, it's pronounced "In Hoke." The entire phrase, In Hoc Signo Vinces, is pronounced "In Hoke Sig'-no Win'-case."

As far as Phi Alpha goes, well, I've heard two conflicting reports about what it means. I won't blurt either of them out here. I'd send it in a u2u, but apparently I've got to make 20 posts before I can do that... lol!

I am willing to talk more about the meanings of these secrets......as I know many myself anyone interested just email me at theset74@gmail.com also have several rituals we can talk about.

If you want to share secrets and ask questions, and are a serious collector, ex-, active or alum Greek go to ; groups.google.com...

Brand new forum to discuss ritual, rites and secrecy.

I'll give any and all Kappa Sigma information. Kappasigmar@yahoo.com

Or, the main part of the initiation can be located on this guy's myspace page.

www.myspace.com/kappasigmaritual

[edit on 15-1-2008 by Kappasigmar]

Phi Alpha is sacred to us yes it used loosely but no one minds cause no one other than bros know what it means... and seeing as how all the imortant means have never been written down since 1856 i doubt all you "studying" fraternity/sorority rituals know what it means but hey youn never know you might know or you might not.
but why waste your time in trying to discover greek secrets if you wanted to know all you had to do is pledge. the true meaning lies in the experience.

Phi Alpha stands for something. We find out what it means when we are initiated. only brothers know what it means. It is not a password. But every single brother from any chapter from any time period from 1856 on, know what it means. I will tell you this, every one of the theories posted on here are incorrect. You will see the greek letters Phi and Alpha on our seal, our coat of arms all over anything we endorse. Its our most sacred thing we as brothers share along with our hand shake. Good luck finding out what it means. but i doubt you will. from all the brothers that read this. Phi Alpha from Florida.

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I would love to see what you have on sigma chi, seeing as i am a member. Just curious to see if what you have is actually correct or if its more BS thats always out there online.