What other things are you prohibited from doing in letters- besides drinking?
 

I've got a hunch that a lot of sororities don't allow members to participate in a Girls Gone Wild video while wearing letters.

You probably shouldn't be seen hitting a bong with your letters on.

Do you think that shooting up heroin in letters is a bad idea?

Oh no way thats totally fine......just say its insulin or something.

And it's totally ok to use your member card to crush up some crack.

KIDDING.

It is in our bylaws that we can't smoke on campus in our letters and if we smoke in public we must be sitting down if we are in our letters.

Crossing your legs and smoking with the Crest on. If your smoking or drinking while you were out you were supposed to tuck the letters into your shirt.

We also smoked outside our sorority house where we couldn't be seen by neighbors or cars passing by

We are supposed to realize that we are representing Phi Sig whenever we are in letters... therefore, our behavior should reflect this. It is kinda a "be on your best behavior" type thing. I always try to let the ladies know that they are representing women all over the country as well as their chapter sisters when they are wearing their letters. I feel a bit like my mom: "Remember who you are and who you represent".

Well, at my maturity having Sex. All of the Youngsters just laff! Oh. ladies of course. We nevder get that danm far for that !

Basically, dont wear where you may look stupid! Asking to much?

You don't give lettered clothing to frat rats (girls) to wear.

Our Code of Standards say that we are not allowed to smoke in our letters, period. Collegians have to adhere to it, not sure (and I don't think it does) if it applies to alums too. :p

At my chapter, you can't smoke, drink, swear, or dress like a hoochie in letters. You have to look classy. We're a bit more strict than some chapters on campus.

Tell me about it. They implemented that rule my final semester as a collegian. During recruitment when I'd wear my letters all over campus, I carried around masking tape (if my letters were small enough to be covered) and smoked against a wall just so no one would see me smoking in letters.

I've also been with members of Phi Alpha on occasion...lol. But yea I remember the first couple of days I moved into the A Phi house after I transferred to Chico State, I'd smoke cigs on the front steps not thinking about how bad that was. *oops* Luckily a sister informed me of the rules.

I would be super annoyed if I had to wear makeup and fix my hair when I was wearing letters. Life's too short. I work out a lot and have classes/rowing all day long, so it's really rare that I'd be wearing makeup...EVER (if I ever wore makeup to rowing practice, I'd get laughed out of the boathouse). I was vegetarian/partial vegan for 4 years, so I'm pretty anti-makeup to begin with.

Things we aren't supposed to do...drink/go to parties with our letters/lavalier on. Other than that, it's sort of an unspoken rule that you never throw any of your sets of letters away...you save them or pass them down no matter what the condition, they never go to goodwill.

I know we just ask that you look presentable, not that you have makeup and all that. Don't just roll out of bed and put on letters and a ratty pair of sweatpants. I know here it's a rule that you don't wear pajama pants outside of our house on campus. Our chapter is filled with classy women, why not dress to express that to the others on campus? Yes, I know that the way you dress isn't a measure of classy, but at the same time if you look nice, you tend to feel better too.

To answer the original question, my chapter doesn't allow drinking, smoking or anything that would demean the letters. (aka sex or something along those lines)

i bet you're beautiful enough that you dont have to wear makeup! :)

i think the biggest thing for us is that we cannot be "on camera" in our letters. a few years ago, Road Rules had mentioned to UNCW that they were coming to do a mission on our campus (for their campus crawl season). we were informed by nationals NOT to wear letters if we wanted to be on tv and if we were in letters to avoid the cameras at all costs.

You can't be on camera doing something "bad" in your letters, or you can't be on camera at all? When MSNBC came to film Crossfire on campus for the 2nd debate, the head of the network (a Pi Phi alum) contacted our chapter and told us that if a bunch of Pi Phis showed up in letters, she'd get us in the front and have Chris Matthews interview us on camera. We weren't allowed to say who we were voting for, hold any signs, or favor either candidate, but we were allowed to answer general questions about where we planned to vote (Missouri or our home state) and other random non-political questions. (We wouldn't want Pi Phi to seem partisan, although there was no problem with us being on TV)

Funny story: My friend randomly ended up being the mascot (in the giant furry bear suit) on the day of the debate and got interviewed by one of the news crews. The reporter asked him who he was voting for, and he screamed "KERRY!!!" and danced around. The school ended up getting a call that night from an angry conservative alum, who wanted the mascot to go back on TV and recant his statement... but it never happened :rolleyes:

i do not understand something. if you cannot drink in letters, why do you think that turning your shirt inside out will make things okay? do you think everyone else is too drunk to realize your shirt is backwards?? so they think your letters are something else when they are not. why do you wear letters when you know you are going to the bar anyway? you would think that someone would see your shirt and think 'hey that is backwards and it looks like they have greek letters.' looks like that is enough to make all greeks look bad and not just your org. or someone could know what your letters are even though they are backwards.

i agree with smiley. i think turning shirts inside out while smoking/drinking looks worse than with them on correctly.

I'll just say what I've said a million times.

If you think that smoking or drinking are that bad and wrong, don't do them at all - letters or no letters. People know you're in a sorority anyway. I don't think those things are bad and see no problem with doing them in right-side-out letters. It's more upsetting to see girls in Greekwear acting like total bitches. Trust me, that makes people think worse of you than drinking ever could. The people who would get on you for drinking are the same ones who even if you DON'T wear letters find a reason to hate sororities anyway.

I know, and I agree.

I just didn't want to get fined. (Being a broke ass college senior those bills meant a meal or two or five) So, if it meant turning the shirt over, sticking the masking tape over, so be it. Drinking I'd never do while in letters (lavaliere, eh, as an alum, perhaps), but y'all know I'm a big smoker.

It was that technical issue, but thankfully it was my last semester, I didn't get caught, so I didn't really give a....

GOOD CALL 33!! This statement is SO true!!

they tell us to just play it safe and avoid the cameras at all

you got FINED for this isht? oy vay.

If we would have had a no smoking in letters rule, we would have either had a lot of cranky sisters or a lot of naked sisters. :)

Tru dat yo, although it's so different up here in the north. We have the no drinking in letters, wearing letters to the bar, etc., but we do not have any of those silly smoking rules about sitting and crossing legs, etc.

It's a public relations thing. Regardless, people tend to know if you're a greek in or out of letters, but when wearing letters, driving a car with letters on it or being in or around the chapter house, you acted like a classy lady and you didn't engage in any kind of behavior that would detract from that image-- smoking, drinking, acting wild, etc. In letters, you had to look like a put-together young woman who was representing her sorority, her university and her community.

My undergrad chapter forbade members to smoke or drink in letters, and that went for jerseys and party shirts - anything at all with our letters on it. You couldn't even carry a tote bag with your letters on it while smoking. We had a large group of smokers for a few years for some reason, so that meant a huge chunk of the chapter never wore their letters at all because they didn't want to be caught smoking and get fined (we were fined out our arses for ridiculous stuff). Finally, my junior year (I think), the bylaws were changed to say that you could smoke in party shirts, at least.

What is the deal with crossed legs anyways?

THANK YOU! That is one thing that has always pissed me off. Girls will never want to join any sorority, especially yours, if they see you going psycho on someone.

Because no one wants to see your coochie.

Amen to that. If you're gonna go off on your boyfriend or chew out the guy at the Starbucks for not putting enough whipped cream on your frozen mocha, DO NOT WEAR LETTERS :mad:

We obviously! hehe. But I mean, if I'm wearing my hoodie with my letters on it and a pair of jeans...can't cross me legs?

Unless its a nice coochie . ..

OMG:eek: unecassary:rolleyes:

Committing felonies.

Well, it's not written down anywhere, but I think it'd be bad.

OK, I'm curious. What about activism? If a GLO member wanted to participate in a protest wearing letters, would that be a problem?

Cross your legs at the ankle. You're doing your legs a favor in the long run by learning to do that anyhow.


I think it's pretty safe to assume that any behavior that could be construed as detrimental to the (Inter)National Organization is something that you don't want to wear your letters while wearing.

Yes, 33girl, that includes acting like a biotch! ;)

I don't know if that would be the best. Personally,I wouldn't. By wearing your letters you're in some ways displaying that your organization supports that particular cause. Which wouldn't be the case. One of our sisters was the Pres. of the University Democrats (editorial note: I am a democrat). She didn't wear her letters when doing politically active things. And i'm happy that she didn't. Because I wouldn't want other sisters to be uncomfortable with their org's name be associated with something that they vehemently opposed. Or for potential members to be turned off because of it.