Yeah, the girls can't be punished under the "revealing secrets" concept or anything. They owned those shirts and can give them to whomever they please (unlike badges, which are usually considered the property of the fraternity and are "on loan" for the duration of your membership). I am pretty sure the only way that you can legally take back all of their paraphanelia is if you reimburse them the cost and buy it from them. At my chapter, girls who quit always give their badge to a still active member or send it back... we always ask for the other stuff back when people quit but if they don't give it there is nothing we can do.

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I know how you feel! I'ts so frustrating! Last year during the Greek Sing competition of Greek Week we had a girl in another sorority that was a Sigma Kappa for a day 2 years ago prancing around on stage in her Sigma Kappa bid day shirt when they got to the part about Sigma Kappa!:mad: :mad: How tacky!! They're usually nice girls, but what they did there...grr!!!! Oh well, we got second place and they weren't even mentioned in the rankings (making them last place or second to last out of 6) so I guess it all worked out! ;) :D :p

How completely disrespectful and STUPID! I mean what the hell, they were just walking around with a sorority's letters? And like someone else said, why Phi Sigma Sigma's? If I were in that Phi Sig chapter at that school I would have confronted them and forced them to take the shirt off! (even in the middle of public, I don't mind causing a scene). And anyway, who in the hell are the Sammies? They sound like shady skeezy guys from the posts I have read. As a Phi Sig, I am really mad! :mad:

I understand the point, I was just making another one in response to her point about punishing them and in response to the self-righteous comments that some people were making. I just feel that, as much as it sucks, you have to understand that things happen that don't always make you happy and not everyone will respect your letters as much as you do no matter how hard you try to make them.

I think what makes me mad here is that these were GREEKS doing it. I don't expect a non-Greek to understand. And hey, if I see a homeless guy in my shirt, at least he has a shirt, you know? Is anyone likely to think he's an AXD, or trying to make fun of us?

As Greeks, even former Greeks, I would expect more of these guys. But then again, maybe their attitude is why they are former Greeks!

What is a Sammie?

Soror, it's slang for Sigma Alpha Mu, an NIC fraternity.

ok, two examples:

for some odd reason a local frat on my campus had their pledges dress up as women and wore white t-shirts with magic markered letters of all the diff. sororities. nothing happened, bc the local isn't even recognized by the college and it was passed over as nothing.

then one thursday when the popular greek bar is packed, a bunch on GDI's (which are totally different then non-greeks. to me, GDI is an organization, mainly made up by the newspaper staff to shine poor light on greeks 24-7...they in essence are a org. to promote cruelty to greeks) showed up at the bar with sewed on letters of all the diff. frats and sororities on campus that they purchased at the book store, and then drank in them in front of all the greeks at the bar. A fight then ensued, resulting in the GDI taken to the hospital. You would think that something would have happened to the GDI's who did this, but nothing did. However, the fraternity guys that sent the GDI to the hospital got arreseted.

Well, this whole thing is upsetting. I'm more mad at the ex Phi sigs than the frat gusy though. I wish people would just disafiliate, and not do such immature things such as give their letters to some frat guys as a prank.

Originally posted by MaxxieAXID

Now, see this is what I am talking about; everyone is getting upset over these "injustices." What exactly would you think would happen to the GDIs? They did nothing against the law... in the United States you can pretty much wear whatever you want, short of indecent exposure. The rule that non-initiated members can not wear letters is a FRATERNITY RULE -- how can you expect people to be punished for breaking a fraternity's rules if they are not members? Of course the fraternity member was arrested... he did break a law. Assault, battery, etc...