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Originally Posted by OTW
However, when you have a sorority that allows their NMs to wear the letters and an individual chapter makes up rules of their own, I can't help but question their motives for doing so.
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I think what happens is either 1) they are carrying over the tradition from when they were a local group or 2) there was a national sorority on campus who WASN'T allowed to wear letters, and that became the campus norm.
It's kind of like frilly rush - maybe there is a chapter who thinks the "no letters before initiation" thing is silly (and their HQ says it is too), but if there are other chapters on campus who do it - especially the "top" chapters - they're not going to buck the system. I mean if a chapter, or the pledge class, says that wearing letters before initiation will make them a subject of campus ridicule, I'm not about to say they HAVE to wear letters. That's like hazing in reverse.
And like I've said a lot of times, the more that pledgeship has become about presents and self-esteem and the less about learning and working, the more arbitrary rules have been placed on things like letters. At least that's my experience.