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Originally Posted by AChiOhSnap

On my campus it would have been seen as totally crazy for members of Psi Chi, Sigma Tau Delta, or Phi Beta Kappa to carry totes or wear letters. In fact, the only org other than the NPC groups that really carried totes or did the stitched-letter sweatshirts were women in APO.

Same thing here. There were only a few non social sorority/fraternity groups on my campus who wore letters (Alpha Phi Omega, Phi Sigma Pi, the music/band fraternities, and a couple others). Beyond that, it wasn't something people did.

I remember one year our Relay for Life tent was next to a group of guys wearing letters that nobody recognized (they weren't an IFC group or any of the other service/music groups). So we went over to say hi and introduce ourselves. They got pretty upset and were like "You should know who were are, we're part of the Greek community too. We're JUST as much of a fraternity as the Delts or Sigma Chi. We drink and party and have letters too!"

We cut that visit short (and spared them the speech that being a fraternity is not all about drinking). I went home and did a quick search and found out that they were members of a Chemistry major honor society.

A few weeks later I ran into one of them outside the Greek Life office looking pretty mad. It turns out that they had been trying to become part of IFC (not sure why) but the advisor had just told him that they couldn't (which was obviously because they were not a fraternity, but they didn't understand that) .