National Pledging Standards, Section 5 - Wearing of Insignia:

An appropriate period of pledging includes wearing an official pledge pin at all times.

I am an ACTIVE alumnus of Alpha Phi Omega -- sponsor of two petitioning groups and President of my alumni association. And what is it that you do?

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Anyone in APO who has had an appropriate period of pledging knows that pledge pins are required at all times possible.

So what's your point, Tom?

The dead has arisen!

Whoop. There it is.

Wow, Virtuous Woman, where have you BEEN?

pledge pins = EVERYWHERE YOU GO!!!!!!!!!:cool:

we can't force our new members on our campus to wear pledge pins. It's considered "hazing".

We dont allow pledges to wear it unless sober either. We say the three Ss are Sloppy, Sleeping, Sex.

same for us

I loved wearing my pledge pin. My mom recently put up some old family pictures - I wore my pledge pin in the formal picture of all 4 children in our family. There I am, with my 80s hair, shoulder padded suit, and my lovely pledge pin.

I loved wearing mine too, although the colors on our pin went with NOTHING, it seemed like, unfortunately. And I have that family picture, too, Belle! ;) Padded shoulders and all, I wore my pledge pin to Christmas Mass and proudly sported that beautiful red, buff and strange-color-green (on my pin, anyway) pin on my burgundy suit. Lots of hairspray, big bangs. It was sweet. ;)

Yeah, Alpha Delta Pi considers it hazing, too. I still wish we had a happy medium - but when I think of what I'd want, it wouldn't work. *sigh*

I never even thought about the color bit! Ours is gold, but it's in every photo of me taken during the almost five months I was a pledge!

We wore our pledge pins at all times - except when drinking at a bar/club (in those cases, it was on our bras). If we were drinking at a fraternity party or elsewhere on campus, we wore our pins.

Like Honey said, our new members now have the same pin-wearing requirments/restictions as our initiated members.

Yeah, I didn't at the time, either, because we just wore it all the time so it didn't matter what you were wearing, but now when I see old pictures, I do notice that it clashed - a LOT. ;)

If memory serves, we wore the official pledge pin with nice clothes - the pledge ribbons all the time.