[SilverTurtle]

We don't have any official rules regarding dress & wearing your badge or pledge pin. Although with the badges, I never saw anyone wear one when they weren't dressed up. Sort of an unwritten rule/tradition I guess.

With the pledgepins, however, we were "strongly encouraged" to wear them every day during class hours. (This prevented them being worn out to clubs, bars, etc.) Exceptions were the 4 S's someone mentioned, as well as jobs/interviews, or any other situation where it could be deemed inappropriate. Also, on my campus Wednesdays were sort of a "day off" for greek events (except for greek council meetings with everyone), so we weren't allowed to schedule events (pledge, social, whatever) on those nights, and couldn't "strongly encourage" our pledges wear their pins on Wed.

We can't say the New Members were required to wear the pins, because we couldn't (and wouldn't) have taken any action (i.e. demerits) if they forgot it. We just encouraged it as a way of displaying their class unity and pride in their new organization.