We don't do them for sororities/fraternities, but we have honor stoles that are basically the same thing. ODK is in charge of organizing this, and we charge $35 for the stole and $5 after that for extra organizations. I'm not sure how much it costs us or where we get them, though, but I can find out at our meeting tomorrow night.

i wore mine, but i wasn't allowed to...so i had to sneak it in during the ceremony.

are you sure about that, I am pretty sure its not allowed. I know some people wear it after the ceremony is over or for pictures... I know you can wear the official honor club ones or the ones for high GPA.

Every school is different. ;)

At UNLV you can wear anything you want on your robe. But you have to wear the robe, hat and tassel. We decorate our hats here and people go all out. My chapter wears cords in lavender and maroon, we also had another tassel made in lavender and maroon. Our school has a high population of hawaiians and they are draped with Leis. In fact they sell leis at the graduation, so even people who aren't hawaiian wear leis during the ceremony.

I'm intrigued about how seniors are presented w/their stoles. Do you do a mini-ceremony type thing? We don't do anything, so i'm curious. We are tyring to make it more ceremonial as the seniors leave. :) If you can tell me please share!
Lil E

Memories...
 

I still have my kente stole from when I graduated (back in '97). I had bought mine from Collegiate Greek, back when they had a shop in NB...now everything is on the internet.

I graduated in May, and I got my stole at my sorority's regional conference. There are a ton of websites that sell them now.

We wore them also, I don't think we were "allowed" to, but no one said anything. I think we got out made by a local seamstress, I still have mine;-)

Last year when I went through grad with three of my sisters, we decided to get them made. They are going to do it again this year. The stoles were made to our specifications - we choose stole color, embroidery color, and the symbol. (The owner faxed me a sheet of all the roses they had and we choose the best one)

They were made by The Sash Company

and look like:
http://www.pdx.edu/media/c/o/commencement_2004_03.jpg

and I think we paid something like $35... and they are really high quality!

I know that chords are the big thing on our campus (I allready know I'm going to have 4 chords to wear and a medal) . I don't know if any GLO's do stoles or not, but I would be HONORED to wear one. Since we just had our badges made (I just got confirmation from my sisters that they are THERE!) I think that stoles would be a great thing to give the seniors at senior rec (where the seniors give away their letters/para).

We found a local seamstress to do them for us. We chose a basic design then let sisters personalize them depending on how much they were willing to spend. They looked great, and now the other orgs have started copying us. But we were sooo classy.

One warning. If you use the satin type, and go with white: Be careful if you wear fresh flower leis during graduation. Your stole will get stained. Our Hawaiians had their families bring leis from Hawai'i and my stole got a little discolored. Totally worth it cause we looked so cute, but just an FYI.