Pi Phi History
Pi Phi's symbol, that symbolizes sisterhood, leadership, and timeless values like honesty, integrity, and growth. It always pointing upward to inspire members to aim high.
What is the arrow?
Pi Beta Phi's signature philanthropy initiative focused on literacy and unlocking potential
What is Read>Lead>Achieve?
Saying something like "we love you so much!" and "can't wait to see you tomorrow!"
What is bid promising?
The app we use to put in our individual scoring after each round.
What is OmegaRecruit?
The amount of bumps there are on day 1, Changemaking
What is 2?
The year that Pi Phi was founded.
What is 1867?
A common statistic highlighting the critical need for literacy efforts.
What is "One in four children will grow up functionally illiterate)"?
A process where potential new members (PNMs) and chapters focus on aligning their core principles, ideals, and beliefs, moving beyond superficial elements (like looks or parties)
What is values based recruitment?
Specific personal experience that is so negative it cannot be expressed by using the adjectives during membership selection.
What is a valid con?
The song we sing to exit sisterhood.
What is boom boom?
The location that Pi Phi was originally founded.
What is Monmouth college in Monmouth, Illinois?
Pi Phi's main philanthropy events we have had in the past.
What are line dancing for literacy, powderpuff, angel bowl, lemonade for literacy, pie a pi phi etc.
The thing we use to think on our feet during conversations. It may help us avoid uncomfortable conversations.
What is the Magic Formula?
During membership selection and we see someone we loved on the “do not invite back” list and we want to vouch for them OR We see someone that we did not love (or know from outside of recruitment) on our “invite back” list and want to display this to the chapter.
What is flagging?
The people floating last on day 1, changemaking.
What is a B
In 1873, members of the Kansas Alpha Chapter held a great feast. By 1885, it had become a Pi Beta Phi tradition that we still do today.
Champions are Readers (CAR), Arrow in the Arctic, Pi Phi’s First Book are apart of this specific place where Pi Phi's money goes.
What is the Literacy Fund?
This is something specific you do when you get to the door to pick a pnm.
What is stepping out and stopping? (as well as smiling and saying something to welcome them to Pi Phi)
A very important aspect of membership selection that will make sure we do not mix up pnms.
What is writing down first AND last names.
These are all the queues for the bumps on sisterhood.
What are after Isabelle's speech, after sisterhood letters, after investment presentation?
The original name of Pi Phi.
What is I.C. Sorosis?
This year marks when Pi Beta Phi formally adopted literacy as its national philanthropic focus.
Topics that we should not talk about that all begin with the same letter.
What are the Bs? What are bucks, baes, booze, bible, biden/barack/bush, bids and broads?
If I just heard someone give a pro statement during member selection, this is what I must give if I want to speak.
What is a con?
Pi, Pi Beta Phi, I am a P, Sisters Sisters, Boom Boom, Pi Phi Anthem, Goodbye?