We don't allow drinking in our letters, though I have no idea if this is a national rule (it sounds like it is) or just widely encouraged.

I know there are chapters who don't allow smoking in letters, or smoking in front of the house -- if they want to smoke they have to at least cover up their letters and/or go out to the backyard.

I'm not sure if Alpha Gam has a specific rule against drinking in letters. However, our Greek Affairs office had a strict rule against it for all Fraternities and Sororities on campus.

During my final semester as a collegian, we revised our Code of Standards to say that no smoking is allowed with our letters showing. It was a chapter rule, which didn't really matter anyway because only three of us smoked. Even then, I remember wearing my letters and just feeeeeeeening for a cigarette.

The no drinking in letters thing was always a rule.

As for drinking with lavalieres on, personally I'm pretty lenient with it. Sometimes, say at Taco Tuesday, you forget that you have it on. Technically you're still wearing your letters, but as long as your lavaliere isn't 10 inches tall then it's okay by me.

The Code of Standards only applied to collegians, but even as alums we still hold ourselves to it because we like setting good examples for our youngins. ;)

Alpha Theta Chi does not allow members to drink with lettered sweatshirts on. A few years ago there was an amendment made state that we could drink while wearing party t-shirts with our letters on them. The only reason they ok'ed that was because if we were hosting a party everyone knew who we were anyway.

This is the same for my Phi Mu chapter: no drinking, smoking, or swearing in letters!

I had never heard of this clause - but I find it commendable!!

As someone who does the hiring (and knows a few others who do so), if two people have the same skills, the nonsmoker will get the job everytime.

You can add Sig Delts to the list. But like someone said earlier, when I am at the bar or at parties, I generally know who is greek or not. :)

Phi Gamma Pi does not allow girls to wear letters while drinking. As for lavalieres: I wear mine all of the time, but I still remember to take it off if I even think I may drink.

Suggestion to those who wear lavalieres: just take it off at home/switch necklaces before you go out that way you know your lavaliere is safe and you're not wearing letters.

We weren't allowed to smoke in our letters, or smoke on property. We had to go out the side door and up to the church parking lot. We also weren't allowed to swear in the "common" areas of the house--front entry way, formal living room, library, tv room, dining room or study lounge.

We aren't allowed to swear on the main floor of the house either. Or go barefoot. Or have food or drinks other than water. I swear, it's like a church down there. :p

We're not allowed to smoke on the upper level of the back balcony but we ARE allowed to smoke on the lower back porch. I'm not sure exactly what the reasoning behind this is, although the upper level is pretty easily visible by the houses (Pi Phi, Kappa Sig and Theta, plus an apartment building and the private dorm) next to us and behind us and the lower level is much harder to see. I think we MIGHT be able to smoke in the front of the house, though, which makes no sense. Being a nonsmoker I don't really know, and we only have a couple girls in our chapter that do smoke, so I've never really seen them smoking outside at all.

Do you ask if the person is a smoker? I have never been asked whether or not I smoke when applying for a job.

i honestly don't know if it's a national rule or not but my chapter definitely doesn't allow it. we always thought it was kind of trashy when one of the local sororities on our campus always comes to bars rocking their letter shirts or their windbreakers (with the huge letters) but i think that particular sorority seems to like having the party animal rep. The other nationals (AZD and SDT) and the other two locals seem to stick to the same rule as us.

i have definitely never heard of the smoking rule before (nor anyone else on my campus) and i think some of my sisters would definitely go nuts if that ever came into effect. we often have a cigarette break during meetings when sisters are always wearing letters.

You can almost always smell it on a person - even if they haven't had a cigarette all day. It sticks to you.


Delta Omicron doesn't allow drinking or smoking in letters. Lavelieres aren't considered rule-breaking, but you may get a stern look or a request to take it off.

No drinking or smoking in letters here either. We're not allowed to smoke on Pi Phi property according to our House Corporation so smokers go across the street.

There have already been several threads on this:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=20887

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=13509

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...&threadid=2560

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=25744

And I will say again, if everyone knows what group you are in, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference if you wear or don't wear your letters while you are smoking/drinking/cussing/buying Britney Spears CDs. (That was for you ZTAngel.) If those things are "bad" or "disrespectful" in letters, you shouldn't do them out of letters either.