be true to yourself....
 

Personally, I say keep the nose ring in. Making a choice to do a facial piercing says something about your personality that won't change, regardless if the ring is in or out. If you've asked the question to wear it or not, it means you've thought about the potential for people at LSU to judge you based on this piercing, and I use the quote above about presenting a "better image" to question you and your motives for joining a sorority. Would you want to join a GLO that dictates their sisters remove their piercings to give themselves a "better image"? In their opinion, does that say that girls with piercings in general, have a lesser quality image? If that is the case, what would they think of you after you receive a bid. Do you suddenly drop down a notch in the "better image" social hierarchy?

I've known girls in the LSU sorority system, as well as many other Deep South colleges, and yes, I agree that the rush process is very cutthroat and your appearance will matter, so the nose ring is probably not the best choice, if you want to fit in with the other girls. However, are you so eager to join that you want to hide an aspect of your personality in order to be accepted? Friends come and go, but pride and self-acceptance are with you forever. Never compromise who you are in order to get others to like you. In about 5 years down the road, issues like nose rings and rush will just be a memory. Be true to yourself. Just my 2 cents!

Disco...:cool:

ooops!
 

I just re-read the last thread and saw that this was an older post. I'm glad to see that she did leave the nose ring, even by "accident"...it says a lot about the girls who offered her a bid and it's nice to see that to some people, trivial issues like nose rings don't matter!

Congrats!

Disco...

Just curious, kinda related, as composite pic time comes, do you have the nose, brow, lip etc rings edited out? We have a sister with a eyebrow ring and our composite photographer is editing it out...just curious.

Either the girls took them out or they didn't show up in our composite - not sure which.

We required our girls to take out any non-ear piercings for composites.

We only ever had one girl with an eyebrow piercing, and she didn't take it out for the composite. I don't think it was an issue.

random sidenote: I work at Chili's, and we DIDN'T hire a girl as a waitress last week because of her facial piercings.

great that Damamsa works in an environment where that kind of thing is accepted & encouraged..... but for the most part, I agree with the sentiment that rush is like a job interview. And most of us wouldn't wear facial piercings to a job interview.

I have a tongue ring and I wear mine to work and I always keep it in.
I have never been ask by an employer to take it while at work. In fact most of the time, people don't even notice it.
I know several people I work have one and several people have nose pirecings.

It all depends on who you work for. Just like I guess, it all depends on where you go through recruitment.