![]() ![]() Housed with these bound copies of the magazine in the Alpha Omicron Pi Records is a binder of photocopied articles from the magazine, 1910-1994, highlighting the Delta chapter or written by members of the Delta chapter. ![]() Often over 100 pages, these issues include interesting features such as a roll of active and alumni chapters, articles about and photographs of chapters across the country, alumnae notes by chapter, and directories of officers and committees for the national organization. Neatly preserved at the Delta’s most recent residence were 57 years’ worth of issues of To Dragma (translated as "the sheaf"), the official magazine of Alpha Omicron Pi. The Alpha Omicron Pi Records provide a glimpse into the activities of the national sorority, as well as a picture (actually, lots of pictures, in many scrapbooks!) of what life was like for a member of the Delta chapter at Tufts. On December 11, 2017, the national Executive Board of Alpha Omicron Pi withdrew the Delta chapter's charter, citing "the chapter's inability to 'build their membership to sustain a viable AOII membership experience.'” In May of 2018, remaining residents moved out of the Delta chapter's sorority house at 25 Whitfield Road in Somerville, and donated their records to DCA. The remaining members discussed leaving the national organization, but instead decided to push for a change in its policy on transgender students, resulting in a change to the bylaws in 2017 that opened membership to “women and those who identify as women." Perhaps summoning the inclusive spirit of their sisters, after a transgender student rushed the Delta chapter and Alpha Omicron Pi International- which oversees recruitment activities of all chapters- delayed an affirmation of the bid, more than half of Delta's members left the sorority in October of 2016. Except for an eighteen-year period between 19, the Deltas were an official chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi and participated in Greek life at Tufts from 1908 through 2017.īetween 19, the Delta chapter’s charter was held in trust after members refused to participate in recruitment activities to protest the discriminatory recruitment rules of the Tufts Panhellenic Council. ![]() After association with other local societies in the New England area, Alpha Delta Sigma was formally initiated as the Delta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi on April 14, 1908. The Delta chapter grew out of Alpha Delta Sigma, a local Greek letter society organized by six women at Tufts (including founder Mary Grace Fickett, J’1896) in 1895. The Delta chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi was established at Tufts University in 1908. The records also document the experiences of cis and transgender women involved with sororities, and provide a lens through which to view many social issues of the day and student responses to them.Īlpha Omicron Pi is a national sorority founded in 1897 at Barnard College. The Alpha Omicron Pi Records are a wonderful resource for those interested in the history of the Delta chapter at Tufts, the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, and Greek life at Tufts. We are very pleased to announce that the Alpha Omicron Pi Records are available for research at Digital Collections and Archives. ![]()
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