Quote:
Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
eta - I'm all for AEPhi handling their business anyway they wish - more power to them. But I still have to wonder (see below). Also, is this AEPhi HQ policy, or your chapter? I find many chapters have rules that are more strict than the inter/national GLO's policies.
Upon reflection, the fact that the crest IS the new member pin, minus the letters, is probably the strongest argument for AEPhi's policy. The letters are what distinguishes the new member pin from the initiated member's crest. So to over-logical me, that makes sense.
|
It is the AEPhi HQ policy. While most NPC orgs allow new members to wear letters but not the crest, we allow new members to wear (a version of) the crest, but not letters.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tld221
Questions (of course you dont have to answer, being that it could be privy to your org):
1. What happens if you have a PNM who says "screw that, im wearing letters" before initiation? Is she asked to leave the pledge class? Does she get to stay with a slap on the wrist? Is she socially looked down on? Or is it something on the books but not really enforced?
2. If new members are allowed to wear the crest, are they told what those things on the crest mean? If not, isnt that the same as wearing letters they dont know the meaning of?
|
A PNM wouldn't be wearing any org's letters, as she hasn't pledged anywhere yet.
But a new member who is seen wearing letters would just be asked to stop doing so until after initiation.
As for the crest, there is some publicly available information, and the new members would have this information before receiving their pins. More than that, I cannot say.