Rhetoricians have further elaborated on the definition of metaphor by separating and naming the two key elements. There are a few different sets of names for these two parts: they can be called the âtenorâ and the âvehicleâ, the âgroundâ and the âfigureâ, or the âtargetâ and the âsourceâ.
Over 3 of the last 5 years, including last year, we won the Cathedral Award, given to the best overall fraternity at the University of Pittsburgh. Our chapter has received the Peterson Significant Chapter Award, the highest honor bestowed upon a Sigma Chi chapter, 4 times in our history. The City of Pittsburgh even declared October 1, 2000 Sigma Chi Day. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855, by seven undergraduate men at Miami University. They felt that the principles of fraternity were crucial to the overall college experience, but were dissatisfied with the unbalance of loyalties and ideals within the fraternities which existed at their university.
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity (Î¹ÏÎ¸) Incorporated is a nationally incorporated, historically African-American, collegiate fraternity. It was founded on September 19, 1963 at Morgan State University (then Morgan State College) in Baltimore, Maryland.At present, it consists of over 70,000 members.ith that in mind, Iota Phi Theta successfully petitioned for membership in the National Interfraternity Conference (NIC) in 1985. The NIC is a federation of 75 men's national and international fraternities and Iota remains 1 of only 3 historically African-American fraternities who are NIC members.