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This isn't the same thing, but when I was a sophomore in college, my 16 year old brother came to visit for the weekend. This also happened to be the weekend of Kappa Sigma see-saw-a-thon(side bar--the KSig's construct this HUGE see-saw and rock the thing for like 2 days to raise money for their philanthopy. Its really fun because you can go down there at like 4am and see people sleeping all around it and people rocking away!). Anyways, all of us bough the t-shirts for this event and we ended up having extra's, so when my brother was there, I asked him if he wanted one and he did. The good thing was, he is a Kappa Sig legacy(my dad), so I thought that was kind of neat. He LOVED wearing it around our hometown, but when he went to college, he left it at home(and I stole it back!), because there were Kappa Sig's on his new campus and he didn't want to come off as thinking he was a shoo-in, and also because he knew from me that your letters can mean a lot and it just wouldn't be right for him to wear them there. He did not end up going Kappa Sig, but I know he did learn a lot about greek life from that one weekend and I thought it was a great promotion for greek life--when he would wear it to school, people would ask about it and he would tell them all about philanthropy and cool fundraising events for good causes that greeks do.
Anyways--I think its fine as long as people know that being a legacy, while a GREAT THING, does not mean you are a shoo-in and also does not mean you HAVE TO be that GLO. You are your own person--set your own path!
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