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Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta is a non-affiliated, genderless sorority formed mysteriously in 2007. Membership is fluid, and no official sorority records are kept. Its name, curious and controversial, varies in length, and is never shortened to cutesy shit like "D^12" or "DDDDDelta!" In addition, the sorority has no affiliation to the better known Delta Delta Delta, a fact which engenders much debate among Knox's Greek community.

Membership Requirements

Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta has one requirement for membership: that pledges say the hallowed name of the sorority so many times that he or she forgets its meaning. Many analysts have traced this initiation ceremony to French Post-Structuralist and Semiotic theory. Knox faculty Dan Wack and Lynette Lombard have written extensively on the roles of these theories in the sorority. Lombard, in a 2007 publication on the colony, made a controversial comparison between the colony and FIJI. Her thesis was that the latter, also a Knox Greek organization, maintains secrecy about its true name to maintain its power, while the former tends to invoke its name as frequently as possible. Reportedly, this difference has prompted a piece by Eric Edi concerning the role of nommo in the sorority's philosophy.

Famous Members

Due to the group's unusual membership requirements, the membership of famous Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Deltans is a highly debated topic. Alleged members include 19th century philosopher Ferdinand de Saussure, 20th century artist and musician Yoko Ono, and the Miami Dolphins. Members based in Knox and Galesburg have included Carl Sandburg, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., and, some say, Abraham Lincoln. Knox's own Lincoln Studies Center has done extensive research, to no concrete conclusion, of that affiliation.


Mischief

As Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta attracts many artists, the colony is naturally blamed for many of the shenanigans on Knox's campus. Recently, the group's name was mentioned in connection to a mysterious horror movie, shot in the WVKC attic of GDH. In addition, Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta Delta's connections with CFA have led to many allegations of vandalism and guerrilla artwork in that location. These activities, although they have not been verified, have place the group at odds with Knox's Office of Admissions, a conflict some experts forsee growing in the future.