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> The World Health Organization announced Friday it was naming a new Covid-19 variant "Omicron," skipping over a politically sensitive letter of the Greek alphabet.
> 1.529 variant out of Johannesburg, South Africa, passing over a letter many observers presumed would be next - "Nu" - as well as the subsequent letter, "Xi," which composes part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping's name.
> The virus joins earlier variants named for letters of the alphabet, including the Alpha variant out of the United Kingdom; the Beta variant out of South Africa; the Gamma variant out of Brazil; and the Delta variant out of India.
> To date, "Nu" and "Xi" are the only letters the WHO has opted against using.
> WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met with Xi at the beginning of the outbreak, when he praised China for its "Openness to sharing information" about Covid-19, despite the country's initial refusal to let the agency's scientists investigate.
> The Biden administration announced Friday it was banning travel to the United States from South Africa and seven other African nations in response to the new variant - including Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique, and Malawi.
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I'm aware there are Canadian and German organizations too, but they are overwhelmingly American.
When new members join fraternities and sororities they often find out about many things including the meaning of the letters, crest/emblems, rituals, sacred stories, alumni secrets, and are given access to things like large libraries of test answers, strategies to cheat the school's systems, and even ways to boost social status or image. Most will never tell, I but I know that there are some of you who are itching to tell Reddit about your fraternity or sorority secrets. This can include any that you learned through a friend, parent, or from a "brother" or "sister" organization.
Just looking for fellow Greeks on reddit! I'm from alpha Kappa Delta Phi and crossed Fall 2010.
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I don't necessarily mean their history's or how certain fraternities began, as that is well documented and part of something a fraternity member must learn to be initiated.
My question is more so just about how and why did groups of men at American colleges decide to form clubs, with greek letters, signifying certain ideals, etc.
On face value it just seems so bizarre, why greek letters? Why not just clubs? Why clubs at all? Do the letters have any real meaning (obviously this may get into more secret information), how come it's groups of three letters or two?
It just is a very bizarre thing that we have in the US (and some other places) that when one at all begins thinking about it, a lot of questions start to pop up.
