Pledge Pin Requirements
 

Hello Everyone!

I am curious to see how other Fraternities and Sororities handle pledge pins. For example, does your organization have pledge pins, are your pledges required to wear them at all times, and are there any times when you tell your pledges not to wear them?

I am a member of Omega Phi Alpha and we require our pledges to wear there plege pins at all times, unless they are exercising, at work if their employer won't allow it, or participating in activities that would give the organization a negative reputation. (Like if they were out drinking or something... in occassions like that, we suggest that the pledge wear her pin on the inside of her shirt.)

Any input from other organizations would be helpful.

Thanks!

New Associates/Recruits/Rushees, or what ever you want to call them are required to wear them except under certain circumstances.

If they do not want to wear them then why would they want to be there?

Back when I was a pledge, we wore our pledge pin at all times, except in the conditions you mention, or to bed. Yes, some other sororities required their pledges to wear their pins to bed!

But now we have New Members - Alphas - and they wear their pledge pins only when wearing Pin Attire (what you would wear to a religious service or to a business meeting).

My own opinion is that there should be a happy medium between the two extremes. I wouldn't mind seeing more of the New Member pin rather than less - but I'll "toe the line".

For APO, we used to go by the three Ss:

Sleeping
Sports
Sex

Or in other words, wear it at all times unless doing so would cause physical harm.

I agree. I don't think I wore my pledge pin more than a dozen times during my pledge period, and it was a really pretty pin! Then again, I always liked dressing up for chapter and thought we had too many "informal" chapters where you could wear jeans, etc.

In ZTA, we only wear our pledge pins during events in which "pin attire" is requested - chapter meetings, church, etc. So I didn't wear mine very much - and ours is very unique so I wouldn't have minded wearing it more. Other chapters on my campus required the wearing of their pledge pins or ribbons throughout the pledge period or they would ask the chapter to dress up more often so as to wear their badge/pin (AOPi did this most often) and I believe AXiD had their NMs wear their pledge ribbon, as did GPhiB. Chi-O and A-phi did as we did I believe.

In Phi Mu Alpha, per our General Regulations for Collegiate Chapters, the probationary member pin "shall be worn at all reasonable times (i.e. probationary members shall not be required to wear the pin during sleep, at times when it could cause injury, etc.). It shall be worn on the clothing over the heart and shall be plainly visible. However, the probationary member pin shall not be worn on coat lapels, coats or jackets, collars, or ties."

When I was a new memeber we wore ours all the time, unless sleeping, at practice or drinking (and then we were told to pin it to our bras). I love the ZTA new member pin, it is so different. I was glad though if i did forget to put it on, I wouldn't be yelled at as some of the other sororities did.

Does your chapter still do it this way - just curious. :) I love not only that our NM pin is so unique, but also what it stands for.

In SAI, the week before the MiTs are pledged, they wear red and white ribbons at all times (except those stated above). Once they have been formally pinned they are to wear ribbons at all times and their pledge pin when they are dressed up for a performance or attending a business casual meeting.

For Phi Sig, the initiates are required to wear their pledge pin at all time except when they are sleeping, having sex, drinking, showering, etc...

It was made clear that the Pledge Pin (as it was still called then) was only to be worn when wearing chapter attire. Not all pledges wear chapter attire when attending classes, so we wore Pledge Ribbons instead. :)

As a pledge class we all decided to wear them every day (unless doing something inappropriate), but the only time the chapter required us to wear them was when the sisters were required to wear their Quills (formal meeting, etc.).

Amazing. Being A Member of APO, you worry me.

APO is Not a member of any Social GLO Organizarion but a Service Fraternity.

APO has a Greek Letter designation and only that!

What ever your agenda is, I am not sure? That worries me.

Member of APO, BU chapter and now closed.:o

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.

if i become a pledger, do i have to wear it in my hometown also?

By rules yes but what are the odds of getting caught by a brother without it there?

We used to make our guys wear a really big star during the last week of pledgeship but IFC made us stop.

At my chapter we just wore them when the actives wore their Quills. Usually on Monday (we were supposed to where pin attire all day it was a Panhellenic thing to promote Greek Life but some days I just woke up to late to get fully ready in Pin attire) for meeting or ceremonies and things like that.

What sucks is that we have to tell our girls that they are NOT ALLOWED to wear their pins...because it's hazing. It is always a disappointment to the girls who want to wear them to find out they can't.

How big? Like Flava Flav clock big? Or Nazi Germany Star of David big?

ZBT - no pledge program and thus no pledge pin.

You receive your real badge about a week after you become a brother. Requirements of when you should wear it are a chapter-by-chapter issue, but you shouldn't wear it when not wearing formal or business attire, a graduation gown, or the clothing we wear during ritual.

I just wonder why some people would not wear their pledge pin or Active Badge/Pin?

There should be a proudness of wearing them!

LXA has certain rules even though they are becoming relaxed in todays society.

Per your school? If they choose to wear them, it isn't hazing.

In Tau Beta Sigma not only did we have to wear the pledge pin CONSTANTLY (pin it on your towel and hang it outside your shower stall if need be) but we also had to carry these pledge notebooks everywhere, as well as a pledge memoriabilia item (in this case a hankerchief with TBS stuff painted on it). This was like 22 years ago. I think it would be considered hazing now. If you didn't have it, a sister could give you demerits.