Talk:Beta Chi Theta/Archive 1

Archive 1

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I'm confused...there was a substantially long article before and now it's one poorly-written line? Commander Nemet 05:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Problem solved. Someone had replaced it earlier. -Nameneko 05:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

Greek in crest

The Greek in the crest is completely wrong. Who created this? All three letters are misspelled. Βετα should be spelled Βητα, Χηι should be Χι and Θηετα should be Θητα. I contacted the fraternity, but I got no reply. I recommend taking the crest off the article until the fraternity decides to correct the crest. I will do this in one week if no one objects. It is bad enough Beta Chi Theta want to subject themselves to ridicule, Wikipedia does not. We can spell. Iago2¹² 17:29, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

My entry above was deleted from this discussion page after I removed the fraternity's crest. Afterwards the crest was put back by the same unnamed user who removed this entry (69.139.22.117). I recommend you explain why you did this. I will wait another week for a reply. If you are affiliated with the fraternity and need any help correcting the writing on the crest I will gladly help you. Iago2¹² 20:27, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

To be fair, they're an Indian fraternity claiming communion with the Greek system. It's understandable that they would screw up the Greek spelling because they're trying to piggyback on a cultural tradition that is alien to their organization. See a common perception. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.64.187.7 (talk) 18:50, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

The organization reserves the right to spell things any way they please. To humor you, the original crest was spelled the way you suggested, but after deliberation with the members at large and in consultation with a Greek professor, it was changed to the current format. The actual reasons are private to the organization and have specific meanings to which you are not privy too. Your arrogance and ignorance to facts has led you to believe that the organization didnt know what they were doing, when in fact, they did. Any organization like this reserves to the right to do what they want with their own regalia. Just like a lot of Greek Fraternities have mottos in Latin on their crest/coat of arms....why are they not in greek? That's their prerogative. This fraternity does not "claim" communion with the Greek System...it IS in communion with the greek system, as evidenced by their acceptance into the NIC. You may know something about the greek language and spelling, but you seem to know nothing of the Greek Fraternity System in the United States.