we could make Dean an honorary brother ;) then maybe he'd be more inclined to stay nearby.

a pledging task:

if you can manage to interrupt an awards ceremony by falling off a stack of boxes and have everyone clap harder for you than for the award winners, you succeed.

or, if you can break a table without sitting on it (or realizing that it is previously broken)

or if you can trip over a box on the way to collect your FIRST off-season competition award.

YSara

w00t!

I like this idea of a FIRST fraternity. It's great for those college and beyonders that love FIRST but don't actually belong to a certain team anymore or can't be there to help out their old team because of school and/or work and stuff. Because if you think about it, every team is it's own little club supporting FIRST and each one has a tight bond and has their own inside jokes and everything, but those who aren't on a team don't have that. With the fraternity, you could feel like part of a group again.

Great idea for a fraternity. However it sucks for those of us liek me whoa re in a fraternity know and cant write DOX or wear the letters. Also if you wanted to have a dox shirt you could go to greek101.com and have them made.


And ps people in fraternities dont pay to have friends join one and you'd know.

what the hey - I'm in! :D

sounds cool to me :)

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Agreed. I would join but I'm already a Sigma Kappa. Though I think the idea sounds really cool, watch out for Natl & Local groups who may have the same letters and don't forget to keep it really loose. Maybe a meetup or group outing at Nats, but anything more and it gets way more messy than it's worth.

Good luck!

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i sent this reply to rpifirst in a private message, but meh, i am going to post this now. who says that you cannot be in more than on fraternity/sorority? My big brother for Mu Upsilon Alpha (my co-ed fraternity) is also a sister of Tau Beta Epsilon (co-ed sorority) and there are no regulations regarding such a thing. maybe someone can prove to me that this is NOT allowed in your fraternity/sorority, and if not, well, then i apologize for cutting you out of the mix, wasn't my intention.

as well, regarding other fraternitys/sororities with the same letters, i have searched and the closest i found was Delta Omicron Chi which is NOT (sorority) the same as Delta Omicron Xi.

I haven't started planning for nationals yet, but i am hoping to have a meet-up the same day as the CD web hug, so stay tuned for news. As well, i'm hoping to have buttons or some paraphenalia that says DOX on it.

Check back closer to regional time, and good luck to all my DOX brothers during build season!

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Ok, it's almost that time. Unfortunately, funds do not allow me to make buttons for the people that are a part of DOX. *tear* But, i DO want to have a meet-up. Since I know Anne is planning a College get-together most of us could meet-up there, but I figure I'd kill two birds with one stone and have everyone meet-up for a few minutes after the CD webhug. Just to bring this thread back up from the archive depths let me know what you folks think. Even those of you that like the idea and can't subscribe to be part of Delta Omicron Xi please feel free to show up at this meeting =)

Also, I'm going to be around some east coast off-seasons this year, hopefully sporting one or more of my new shirts (see my new who-am-i) so come say hi! I'll also be at IRI and if I have the funds by then I'm hoping to have something *crosses fingers* to give out to ya'll.

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Are Canadian University students allowed to join? :)

Chris

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of course! I said college students involved in FIRST, doesn't matter where you live. The British team students and the Brazillians (and anyone else I may leave out) is welcome!

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Hey bandchick the letters look really cool. Another really good looking set would be to have the delta be red, the omicron be white ,and the xi be blue. This set with a white outline and a blue shirt would be really cool and allot like the FIRST logo.

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i was going to attempt to do something like that, but i ordered those online (from the site you mentioned, thanks!) and i wasn't sure how much more it would cost me to get each letter an individual color, but that's the t-shirt i'm looking at next.

thanks!

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I was bored, and thought it would be a good idea to imitate the FIRST logo with the greek letters. The result is my logo. What does everyone think?

In other news, I'm in talks with Kettering admin about establishing the first official Unofficial FIRST chapter of DOX. We're just a group of FIRST alumni and college mentors that love mentoring our respective teams during Build season (Winter break). Does anyone have any (low budget) thoughts/ideas for what we can do on Campus to enhance FIRST?