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Originally posted by Little E
At our officer academy one of our national officers or Mary Ann Callais (I don't remember who) told a story about seeing a young man in the airport with his letters on, then she saw the back of the shirt which would be enough to make Paris Hilton blush. She gave him a lecture about the shirt and told him that if he was smart and cared about the meaning behind his letters he would take the shirt off and put it in a drawer and bring it out when his 16 year old daughter went on her first date and give it to her date. She left to get on her plane and they had to wait for one more passenger to get on, it was that kid, and he had changed his shirt. (I thought it was a great story)
Maybe they need to realize first hand that people, including alumni, see the shirts and don't want their children or families associating with that image.
My best advice is get the younger guys to visit with alumni, you can't control everyone. Don't talk about where everyone else is, they are your brothers be discrete about their real activies (don' lie though). Change starts somewhere, I'd do what you can and it might take a while, but if you are persistant (with out harassing them) eventually it will happen, or they'll graduate.
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That's wonderful! I think you have a good head start, by getting the younger guys to understand. The older guys will graduate (not soon enough), but in the meantime, keep up the good work. Change has to come from within, and if the younger majority makes the decision to maintain a good repuation, it just may wear off onto the older ones. They do have to prepare for the Real World, after all!!
33girl & KLPDaisy, I'm in total agreement. Some of the Greek t-shirts I've seen have embarrassed me to tears - and they're not even from my GLO!!