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Originally Posted by aephi alum
It's the other way around, for AEPhi. Our new members cannot wear letters (per national policy) but our new member pin is the crest with the Greek letters removed.
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Ah, I think I completely misread your initial post. Sorry about that.
NPCs that allow letters, not crests, for NMs:
AST
ASA
G Phi B (I think I gathered that..?)
KD
Sigma Kappa
NPCs that allow crests, not letters, for NMs:
AEPhi
NPCs that allow both:
Pi Phi
FWIW, I agree with preciousjeni. I think that for the most part insisting that allowing letters vs. crests is all a matter of semantics. As is "new member" vs. "pledge."
I think the salient point for me is that some chapter were doing things in the past like "making pledges earn their letters" by hazing and that's why disallowing letters for NMs was done away with. I've never heard of hazing justified by "making pledges earn their crest," so it's less of a hot-button issue.