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Originally Posted by ucfpnm
Seeing that most of you were somewhat anti-letter-wearing pledges, what do you guys think of this practice? Does it depend on nationals?
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I think this depends on the school. At UCF, plenty of groups swap letters. Although there are no formal auxilary groups, there's an underground Big Bro/Lil Sis and Big Sis/Lil Bro movement where members of different GLOs call each other family and exchange paddles and jerseys with one another's letters. During football games, many girls wear fraternity jerseys with stitched letters. During sorority recruitment, the guys wear sorority jerseys and sorority event shirts, including Bid Day shirts. In some cases, sorority women will have shirts made for their friends in other sororities with the other GLO's letters stitched and their own sewn through (written in italic Latin characters). I'm sure someone from another school would think this was really bizarre, but it's helped promote Greek Life on our campus and the Greeks have strong relationships within chapters.
There is only one sorority at UCF that does not allow new members to wear Greek letters (they may wear shirts with the letters spelled out), and this is per their national bylaws. I don't see anything wrong with a new member wearing Greek letters or shirts with the letters spelled out in Latin characters-- as long as it is in keeping with your bylaws, it promotes the organization and Greek Life.