You guys think you have it bad, listen to this. A couple of us were in the student center just hanging out and eating lunch when a homeless person wearing a PIKE SHIRT!! walked in and started going thru the garbage cans. One of my bro's also reported a bum wearing a pike hat once too. I dont know how they got these things, but I dont like the idea of our letters being represented that way.

Re the homeless guy...

Did you talk to him? How do you know he wasn't a brother?

There but for the grace of God go I...

we had a situation like that with a girl in my pledge class...she ended up not getting initiated due to her 0.0 (literally) :rolleyes: GPA...she kept wearing our letters even after admitting the drugs she does now, the fact that she failed out of school, and the people she's slept with...it was ridiculous...someone other than a sister said something not very tactful to her about wearing our letters and she quit...

This sort of situation may easily arise if you donate old t-shirts or other clothing items to charity. If you donate clothing, it will be given to someone who needs clothing - regardless of what may be printed on it - and you have no control over who gets it.

Fortunately, those who have disaffiliated from my chapter have always returned their badges and given t-shirts, letters, etc. away to sisters who remain affiliated.

The bum certainly wasnt a brother. Car break-ins are very common on campus( mostly committed by bums). It is not uncommon to be approaced by these individuals selling everything from cd's to calculators to textbooks. So i'm assuming that the pike items were stolen.

homesless wearing GLO shirts
 

Whoa, are you quick to accuse or what!

As aephi alum said, when we donate shirts to charity, anyone can get them. I have been seeing many non-greeks wearing our shirts. In fact, when I was a high school teacher, there was a kid who wore a GLO jacket (zipper kind with the hood). He had no idea what the letters were - his mom gave it to him.

The solution? Don't donate your GLO t-shirts. Use them as car rags, etc. Or, give them to someone who will reuse them.

I had been storing all my KD shirts that I got when I was in college in the 80s up until a few months ago. I didn't want to use them as rags, so I posted about them on our Yahoogroup. A few KDs were making t-shirt quilts, so I divided up my 10 or so t-shirts among 3 of them...and now I know they will be appreciated by another sister -- not a homeless person (who I have plenty of other clothes to donate to!) :D

I seem to recall an old thread from way back where the situation was that a homeless MAN was wearing a Phi Mu t-shirt!

Echoing what aephialum said, if you give that stuff away to GoodWill, it can and will get be put to use.

aaahhhhhrrrrggggg! Enough of this goodwill talk!! I have a new story, I was driving to work a couple of months ago and I seen this dude wearing an AGD letter shirt. It was all grungy and it looked like it was from the late eighties. I got a good chuckle out of it cuz we're real tight with the AGD chapter here.

Oh, and by the way it wasnt a homeless person, it was a construction worker wearing the AGD letters.

This whole thread makes me want to run out to the nearest Goodwill and buy any GLO shirts that may be there - and return them to an appropriate source!

I can't imagine what I'd do if I saw someone in my letters who didn't have the right to wear them!

To elaborate on the Kappa alum initiation thing, it is my understanding that they are only initiating a few right now, mostly in upstate New York. It's a long process, no need to get into it now.

But anyway, here's one for you CP2K: I was in Disneyland on the 4th of July and I walked by a guy, probably 30 or so wearing a DG shirt. Not a Panhel/IFC event shirt or anything, just straight DG letters.

>The bum certainly wasnt a brother.

You spoke to him about it?

If you didn't, I don't know how you can be so sure. Maybe the items were stolen. Maybe they were donated. Maybe he found them in a Dumpster. And maybe, years ago, before he had a mental breakdown or started using drugs and ended up on the street, he went to college...and joined your fraternity.

Things happen to people, even privileged people, and they end up in places we can't imagine ending up. Are Greeks immune from the kind of tragedies that ruin independents' lives?

Ivy

listen Ivy, I know without a doubt he wasnt a bro. I am not going to mention how I know, for it will prolly cause a good uproar. And yes, he very likely could have fished it out of a dumpster, but at our chapter here, our house is in the city. We have had many probs with people breaking into cars and stealing items, as well as people breaking into the house.

Regarding the homeless guy in PIKE letters. I also doubt he was a brother. I know the area of Wayne State U, because I passed by there once a couple of years ago when I was dancing with American Ballet Theater. They had a satellite program in the dance studios of WSU for the summer. Anyway, I'll bet it was just someone from the area who picked up the shirt somehow. There are a lot of goodwill stores in that area, because I wouldn't exactly say its the most affluent area. Of course though no matter what 'hood a school is in, it doesn't mean it's bad. I.E. USC, YALE, COLUMBIA, and obviously WSU now.

On another note, I was down in Charleston last summer, and we were in some random area one day that wasn't the best neighborhood, and I saw some drugged up girlie with a DG Mom sweatshirt. Haha, I laughed a lot. Nothing against DG at all though. I would have laughed even if it said A Phi. I mean seriously, after you graduate you can't say that letters are going to mean THAT much to you. My sisterhood and the bonds will last forever, but I'm not going to give a damn about the Greek system. That's for college.

Oh my. Reading this brought me back to that first post. I'm more shocked and irritated that my sorority's 'nalia ended up in a thrift shop. It just speaks to the importance of making sure that nalia stays in the family. If you can't use it, pass it on to another member of your org.
:)