Why is that?:confused:

They as members of a Organization are not proud enough to wear them?

I am sorry, it is a form of Advertising of said Organization and how you feel foir them!

Maybe that is where we are lacking?:eek:

So, screw My Org. and wear beer or shoe logos?:o

Maybe it is time for Actives and Alumni to promote this a lot more!

Do you get paid by The Gap or Old Navy to wear their crap? Oh, Nike, Budweiser, Coors, Buschs or what ever?

I earned My Right to wear Lettes and Badges, I just bought t-shirts for drinking beer!:rolleyes:

It is you alls decissions to do and promote Your GLO if you do not, who will do it for you?

I think you're making more of it than it is. On some campuses, certain honors groups/academic Greek societies don't wear letters. On others, they do. Again, it just depends on the campus culture.

Another example: At UCF the greeks (social, pre-professional, honors, etc.) wear jerseys. At UCLA, they wear letter tees or sweatshirts, but wouldn't know a jersey if it bit them.

It doesn't make anyone less proud of being in their music Greek org or social Greek org. It just is a matter of how the chapters on that campus wear their letters as tackle twill stitched letters and/or t-shirts or not.

And on my undergrad campus, no one really wore lettered anything unless they were in one of the BGLOs.

Honor organization pins
 

I think it depends also on the college culture. As a member of one honor society's national leadership team, I'll wear my screened t-shirt for casual events we have at conference or when I'm making casual chapter visits. If it's an important event, such as an awards banquet, chapter initiation, etc, I will usually wear my pin or my necklace. At our national conference, for our formal banquet, many members wear their pins as well as their badges from their Greek organizations. We don't have lettered jerseys per se, but chapters will usually make screened shirts to wear for our philanthropy projects, PR, and recognition on campus.

I think that most people ( new graduates) wear the lapel pins for easy recognition, especially when interviewing, especially in thier particular field.

a couple of our orgs wear screen printed shirts, but they're more for advertisement than "pride", IMHO. I have an ALD shirt that I got at initiation. I've kept my pins and wear them on occasion (functions of the chapter or academic things), but other than my ALD shirt and pins for the other orgs, nope.

Honor Society Letters
 

I'm a member of Kappa Delta Pi (education honor society) and I have never even thought of wearing letters. Mainly because, and I don't know about the other honor societies, but because I don't feel as though I earned the letters and anyone that was at the ceremony knows what the letters mean. There's nothing secretive about it and there was no pledge process, no membership selection. I don't even know any other the other members personally.

Whoever said it was right, it's just a resume builder. Not to offend anyone, but I am not nearly as proud of the KDP letters as I am my SAI or Phi Sig letters. I earned those hardcore with my sweat and tears and will be burried with both of my badges.

On campus I know that Alpha Phi Omega [co-ed service frat] is big on giving letters to their littles/bigs and they'll wear em time to time, but primarily when they're doing philanthropy. I've seen Phi Delta Epsilon [co-ed health] wear their letters recently, I think a lot of them just crossed that's why. Other than that it's primarily NPC and IFC greeks wearing their letters.

APO is not an 'honor fraternity'. We are more like social/general GLOs, as we have a pledge program, etc. Most APO chapters give their members letter shirts (some do jerseys, jackets, etc), and most APO chapters encourage their members to wear letters or APO-related t-shirts when we are doing stuff, whether it be a service event or a fellowship event.

When I was in school (way back when), the groups that were strictly honor societies didn't really wear letters. I was in AERho and Alpha Lambda Delta, but never had any clothing with those letters on it (ALD did give us some sort of pin, but I have no idea where it is).
However we had service oriented greek orgs as well as major specific orgs (pre-law, business, etc.) and all of those did wear block letters/jerseys/hats. In some cases, those members were more "die hard" than those in the "social" groups. I remember one business frat hazing their pledges and thinking that if we had done what they were doing, we would have been kicked out in a heartbeat (they had their pledges blindfolded and were taking them on a "trust walk" around the building- up and down stairs, etc)

I think part of the answer to this is on the make up or character of various GLOs. Sort of the similiar theme that's come up here as to which groups are 'real greeks' as opposed to being in a group that has greek-letters for their name (and the big mistake that too many make is that only the general/social GLOs are the 'real greeks').

When we speak of GLOs (and I include those GLOs that don't have greek-letter names, like Farmhouse etc), we are speaking of a wide range of different groups:

* general/social GLOs (your various NIC, NPC, NPHC, and such fraternities and sororities)
* service GLOs (basically APO, GSS, and OPA)
* professional GLOs
* honor GLOs

Is a particular GLOs just a group with a greek-letter name, or do they use fraternalism to bring their members together into a strong brotherhood/sisterhood? Not all do. At a minimum, such groups have an induction ceremony, but those that use fraternalism usually have a pledge program (a new member training program to educate the soon to be members on principles, history, traditions, etc of the group) that helps instill the principles of the group as well as all the rest.

Obviously the general/social GLOs do that. The service GLOs also do this. I don't know about the professional GLOs. The honor GLOs don't do this.

Thus, being in GLOs that are fraternal, will create the loyalty to the group that leads you to wear your letters and insignia.