# F

#### **Facility names (see "Building and Facility Names")**

#### **Faculty Senate (proper name)**

#### **fall semester**

See **semester.**

#### **Fight Song** 

See entry "ASU Loyalty Song."

#### **First-year, first-time**

Use the compound adjective “first-year,” rather than “freshman," to refer to students who are arriving at A-State for their inaugural year. Examples include: first-year residence hall, the First-Year Experience program, first-year scholarships. Increasingly students arrive with concurrent credit hours from high school that make them academically sophomore (or second-year) students. Many programs are directed at these first-time, first-year students, and for clarity, do not use the term “freshman.”

#### **Fowler Center**

In most cases, it is *Fowler Center* – not "The" or "the Fowler Center." Never use “performing arts” as part of title. Fowler Center contains: (proper names)

- Bradbury Art Museum
- Grand Hall
- The A-State Theatre
- Riceland Hall
- The Simpson Theatre

The Fowler Center Series, ticketed professional performances, includes some presentations that are designated part of the *Riceland Distinguished Presentation Series*. The Delta National Small Prints Exhibition is an annual event in the Bradbury Art Museum.

#### **fraternities, sororities**

The full, formal name should be used on first reference: *Tau Kappa Epsilon* . Abbreviations are acceptable on second reference, but avoid nicknames like Pike.

In reference to a fraternity’s or sorority’s building, the word *house* should be capitalized when it follows the name of the organization: *Tau Kappa Epsilon House; fraternity house*.

Greek-letter fraternities and sororities that are chapters of national organizations, with their campus charter date and nickname, are listed here; if the group has a house on campus, that is noted:

#### *Fraternities:*

- Alpha Gamma Rho, 1973 (AGR), house on Aggie Road near university farm
- Alpha Phi Alpha, 1973 (Alpha)
- Alpha Tau Omega, 1967 (ATO)
- Iota Phi Theta, 2010 (Iota)
- Kappa Alpha, 1967 (KA), house on University Loop
- Kappa Alpha Psi, 1975 (Kappa)
- Kappa Sigma, 2014 (Kappa Sig)
- Lambda Chi Alpha, 1959 (Lambda Chi), house on University Loop.
- Omega Psi Phi, 1973 (Omega or "Ques")
- Phi Beta Sigma, 1979 (Sigma)
- Phi Delta Theta, 2021 (Phi Delt)
- Pi Kappa Alpha, 1948 (Pike), house on University Loop
- Sigma Chi, 1987 (Sigma Chi), house on University Loop
- Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1949, recolonized 2016 (Teke)

#### *Sororities:*

- Alpha Gamma Delta, 1948 (Alpha Gam), house on Aggie Road
- Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1973 (AKA)
- Alpha Omicron Pi, 1949 (AOPi), house on Aggie Road
- Chi Omega, 1961 (Chi O), house on Aggie Road
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 2021 (Delta)
- Delta Zeta, 1991 (DZ), house on Aggie Road
- Hermandad de Sigma Iota Alpha, chapter colonized 2021 (SIA)
- Sigma Gamma Rho, 1999 (SGRho)
- Zeta Phi Beta, 1986 (Zeta)
- Zeta Tau Alpha, 1968, recolonized 2012 (Zeta), house on Aggie Road

#### **Fight Song**

Although it is commonly known as the "fight song," the name is "ASU Loyalty Song," credited to George L. "Pop" Hodge.

#### **Freshman, freshmen**

The plural form of the noun is freshmen. However, as an adjective, freshman is always correct.

#### **fund raising (n.), fund-raising (adj.), fund-raiser (n.)**

Follow the examples:  
*Fund raising is difficult.  
They planned a fund-raising campaign.  
A fund-raiser was hired.*