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Hello, all. I am from the Kappa Sigma chapter of PMA at Valparaiso University. I see that we have already been mentioned, so I felt the need to detail our process. It is very similar to what nehpets99 said about it, except we don't require permission from the brotherhood. Granted, it is seen as a very good thing to get permission first, but it is not without precedent to do it without full knowledge of the brotherhood.
The way that we view lavaliering here at KS is that it isn't so much that you just want your loved one to wear your letters, but you want to bring them into your fraternal "family". They still don't learn fraternity secrets, as they aren't an active brother, but they are allowed to wear letters and just get to be more intigrated into the fraternity. And yes, it is also generally seen as a precursor to engagement/marraige.
Also, it is generally seen that you only ever get one lavaliering. If you happen to break up with someone that you lavaliered, generally you cannot re-lavalier. Again, it is not without precedent, but it is quite a social faux pas.
That's weird about not selling them anymore... Our campus bookstore still sells some PMA lavaliers. How odd...
However, this new amendement could change things very soon... Hmm... I think we have a lazy provence governor, as we've never heard of anything about this...
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