No. If they were, we wouldn't have chapters who hate doing frilly rush still doing it. That's the same type of issue, IMO.

As I've said before I don't recall all this "can't wear letters before initiation" business when pledging involved more work than it does today. I don't mean hazing, I mean work. But anyhoo.

My feeling is - tell the pledges that they are allowed to wear letters if they are, nationally. If they CHOOSE not to, because of campus culture or because they don't feel they should for whatever reason or because they are all fru fru girly girls who wear nothing but flowered sundresses every day, that's their prerogative.

For every member of a national on here who says "we can't wear letters before intiation" there will be another who says they can. As far as I'm concerned, just chalk it up to different campuses are different and forget about it. I mean, what are you going to do? Have a national consultant there forcing the pledges to wear letters to show they're not being hazed? If that wouldn't contribute to feelings of ridicule, I don't know what would.

What a great story - you are a terrific writer! Congratulations to you and Sigma Sigma Sigma!!!

Congratulations to you and SSS! Where do you go to school? Where was your old school?
I had a feeling that it was "Ari" from the beginning because it was one of the two sororities that wasn't at your old school and you didn't like the other one.

This story was amazing!! I read it all and I too must say you are an AMAZING writer!! And I also want to congratulate you on winding up with a wonderful organization such as Tri-Sigma!!

Same with my chapter. We were allowed to use letters in our AIM profiles etc. None of us were for awhile, and my big asked why (I'd had them, then taken them out) and she was so mad when I told her that I'd been told not to put them in there. So back in they went.
Our first set of letters came from our mothers (now Sigmas) so while you could buy your own, it was much more special to wait.

The other new members and I discussed this some time back and we thought we weren't supposed to wear BLOCK letters (the cutout kind). We did get out first block letters with our family prints on them from our bigs. I'm not sure who told us this though...

Congratulations sweetie!!!!!!

I'm so happy for you that you found your home with Tri-Sig!!!!!

What a great story!! And I must echo the other CGers that have said, TAKE UP WRITING!!

You you will be such a great asset to Tri-Sigma with your positive attitude and love of your sorority already!!

Loved the decision to wear the belt!! And, for all you PNMs out there, it does pay to wear something that might be a standout thing to make you more memorable, but remember don't be "over the top"...tact is the key.

GO SIGMA SIGMA SIGMA!!

congrats on TRISIGMA!!!!!!!! :)

YAY!!! Congrats on joining our wonderful Sisterhood! I'm really pleased you felt such a bond and am sure you'll have a fantastic experience. :D

Cheers,
ShyViolet

ps - Come over to the TriSigma board if you haven't already. The more the merrier!

Congratulations!!!! Your story was really fun to share:)

CONGRATULATIONS! :) I just joined Sigma this fall and I hope you end up loving it as much as I have so far. It's so hard to belive that just 2 months ago I was where you are writing my rush thread, and next week, I'm being initiated.

Wow! You too...all the PNMs that came to us soon will be fully Initiated members!! Congrats all!!

congratulations on tri-sigma!!! your story was wonderful. thanks for sharing!