This is a well reasoned approach.
Had I been in San Francisco in 1939 (hosted by Mu Zeta) I might have suggested that brothers who were initiates of TKN could wear their TKN badge in lieu of the chapter letter style guard; thus they would wear both badges. Then again, I wasn't there and nobody ever said I was reasonable.
The issue would have been that some Universities, Berkeley included, had chapters of each. A Brother who entered via TKN would have had a distinctly different badge than those who started out as members of Lambda Chi Alpha. Thus Brother James Doolittle would have had both badges if my proposed scheme had been adopted.
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Originally Posted by justaflaneur
Trey,
I can't point you to anything in our Laws that covers use of the Theta Kappa Nu Badge. The specific references in our Laws to the wearing of the guard or the wearing of the pin of the former local would lead me to the conclusion that it is improper to wear any other item of Fraternity jewelry in adornment of our Badge. I also know there was specific agreement at the time of the merger that precluded the performance of the Theta Kappa Nu Ritual in the future. My guess is that the former Theta Kappa Nu members would have felt the same about the wearing of their Badge - particularly by men who were not TKN members at the time of the merger.
But these are just my impressions based on no research at all. Don't carve them into stone as "Rulings of the Grand High Pi!"
In ZAX,
Lynn
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