OK, so all the recent pin/badge questions have me wondering... do you get to keep your new member pin when you are initiated? And if not, what happens to it? (Does your chapter keep them to give to future NMs or what?)
I remember someone saying (can't recall who offhand) that her sorority didn't let new initiates keep their NM pins.
In AEPhi we keep our new member pins... though once you're initiated you'd never really have reason to wear it. I've been wondering what to do with mine... I would make it into a pendant, except AEPhi rules expressly forbid you to make a NM pin or a badge into any other type of jewelry.
My local sorority (that later went AEPhi) gave pledge rings to all the new members. Once you were initiated, you could wear your pledge ring whenever you wished, except during a subsequent pledge class's new member period.
So I have a lot of sorority jewelry... 2 badges, a pledge ring, and a new member pin... oy
