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Poster Name:
Legend- wait for it

Poster Message:
I have a theory that I like to call "Tier Identity" where I believe most people don't care about the ranking of an individual fraternity or sorority, but rather associate 1 or 2 specifically with that ranking. For example when I think of top tier fraternity, I don't debate whether or not sig nu or kap sig belong there, I just think of like KA or something as a basis for comparison. When I think of bottom tier, I don't think of Alpha sig or DKE, I think of ZBT as a basis. This isn't to say that ZBT is the bottom of the bottom (although personally I believe this to be true) or that KA is the top of the top, I'm just saying that since our society likes to create categories and sub catergories of everything, it also likes to pick one of those subcategories as a norm comparable to the the others in its group. The interesting thing I find here is that this can be positive or negative depending on which identity you are embodying. For example, when I first got to school, I had only heard of ZBT as a bottom tier without learning about what other ones are bottom. The omission of other fraternities within their ranking was a good thing because when I thought of ranking I immediately thought of ZBT=bottom and not Alpha Sig=bottom, even if ZBT=Alpha Sig. This also is true for the top tier in vice versa.