If, as her name suggests, she attends KU I highly doubt her story. It's a school with a strong Greek system and old chapters.

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It sounds like that you all have these by laws that you probably dont have time to rush events. It just dont make sense to me that u cant smoke in your letters, no drinking in your letters, all this mess, it dont make sense to me at all. If your in your house chillin and having a party and its your greek event you should be able to drink what ever you please espeically if your paying your dues, and taking care of business. Now im not saying its okay to fall all drunk outside your campus, or us profanity throughout the campus, but within judgement and discretion it should not matter what u do in your letters u should be proud of them and feel okay to do what you do in them. Im quite sure when you were pledeging everything was soo fine, and peachey and everything was soo moralely okay.. So lets be real peeps and dont fake da funk....

That is exactly what I was getting at. Imagine if you saw someone walking around campus with that new Lacoste halter on that has the GIANT alligator on the front. You would think, "she's desperate and really wants everyone to know that she is wearing a Lacoste shirt." Anything with a huge apparent logo is just unneccesary.

And to the girl who said she didn't believe my story because I go to KU, you are confused. We have an extremely strong Greek system, my chapter just celebrated 125 years and that is a part of why we do what we do. We have respect for our letters. They are your letters! They probably mean a whole lot to you and have deep meaning. Why put them on a measly t-shirt that is hot pink with polka dot letters? It doesn't seem right.

The Betas here on campus won't wear their letters or put their letters on absolutely anything, in respect to them.

First off, we don't need to sell ourselves with our shirts. That is ridiculous to say. We are an excellent chapter who has great girls and wearng a shirt on campus isn't going to make a girl want to go Theta.

Secondly, to the people who said things about grades and such. We have been top in grades for the longest time. And in Spring 2005 we were top in grades out of all Greek.

Greek letters are not the same as Lacoste/Fubu/Nautica/Kate Spade/what have you logos. I can't believe I'm actually explaining that to someone who's supposedly Greek.

If you do put those two things in the same category, I think your sisters/brothers are probably glad you AREN'T wearing your letters and letting people know you're a member.

I think that it's funny that this is the first we've heard about a chapter not wearing letters....

No they aren't, it's the principal of it. There's a reason that the big lettered shirts are so popular, it's because people feel the need to flaunt around the fact that they're Greek. Being Greek is about sisterhood, it's about secrets and things that no one else knows about...it's something that should be shared among the girls in your house...not the whole campus. Granted, you can't get all of that out of your letters, but if you are confident in your sisterhood and everything that your sorority gives you, then why do you feel the need to flaunt around something so sacred. I doubt they did that back in the 19th century.

So all this emphasis on the so-called "tackiness" of it, what about your reasoning about professors being anti-greek?

ETA: and then why wear ANYTHING Theta at all? It's all the same, just because someone can't see it from 500 feet away doesn't mean people don't see Kappa Alpha Theta spelled out on your shirt.

The chapter in question's webpage (loads VERY slow):
http://www.ku.edu/~theta/
I'm having a terrible time trying to get it to load, but it seems that there are pictures of chapter members in block letter t-shirts, a group picture in front of HUGE wooden letters, etc.

Those are from Bid Day. Come on, that is not a class. That is the only day everyone wears shirts. We get them from our pledge moms and don't wear them again until Bid Day. And that isn't our current website. That is old.

I think it's crazy that all I did was answer the original post's question and now I am some kind of evil person. I didn't invent the rule, I just approve of it, but for some reason everyone on here decides to flame and get mad at me for it?

Don't you update your site on a regular basis? What if you have PNMs who aren't knowledgable about Greek Life at KU and want to familiarize themselves with the individual chapters?

Actually many different chapters of all GLOs from many different schools are guilty of this as well. My kiddo & I have been looking at Panhel websites and the individual sororities of all the schools she visited during college searches and I was surprised at how out of date so many websites tended to be!

I'm curious how other Thetas (namely your HQ) feel about this. As 33 said, I really hope your HQ reads this because I'd really like to know what they think.

Is this just a chapter thing or do all chapters participate in this "not wearing your letters to class because it's tacky" process?

Either way, I call the BS.

You guys are seriously ridiculous. It is not in our by-laws. It is a suggestion. And as for you hoping we get in trouble because of that, that is absolutely horrible of you to say.

About the website: we are in the process of redoing it, so we just have up that site up for now, we have www.kutheta125.com up now. And at KU we have www.kugreek.org for all info on Rush. We can't have info about rush on our website, we would just have a link to direct girls to that website, and our new website will have that.

I'm calling troll on this one.

You need to set your priorities straight and look at what the chapter is really doing. We are a great house, with amazing girls. We have the studen body vice president in our house, this year an outgoing senior was just nominated for the Chancellor's award (an award given to the top 10 graduating seniors on campus, voted by the Chancellor). This past fall we were second in the all fraternity/sorority GPA's with a 3.33 (only second behind Beta Theta Pi, who had a 3.48). The all sorority average was a 3.11. These amongst many other things.

How could this get us into trouble with HQ. We are not forced to do it by any means, and we for sure don't get in trouble for not doing it. I don't know of any girl in the house that doesn't agree with it, and I think that a chapter can't be punished for a girl making a decision about what she wants to wear to school.