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Originally Posted by greekalum
Oh, how I wish that, as well. And on a few issues that are in my mind bigger deals than when you wear letters. Campus culture/'everyone does it' is tough to buck, but aren't collegiate women strong enough to resist peer pressure?
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No. If they were, we wouldn't have chapters who hate doing frilly rush still doing it. That's the same type of issue, IMO.
As I've said before I don't recall all this "can't wear letters before initiation" business when pledging involved more work than it does today. I don't mean hazing, I mean work. But anyhoo.
My feeling is - tell the pledges that they are allowed to wear letters if they are, nationally. If they CHOOSE not to, because of campus culture or because they don't feel they should for whatever reason or because they are all fru fru girly girls who wear nothing but flowered sundresses every day, that's their prerogative.
For every member of a national on here who says "we can't wear letters before intiation" there will be another who says they can. As far as I'm concerned, just chalk it up to different campuses are different and forget about it. I mean, what are you going to do? Have a national consultant there forcing the pledges to wear letters to show they're not being hazed? If that wouldn't contribute to feelings of ridicule, I don't know what would.