Wow! Alot of PH seem to go overboard in interpreting the NPC guidelines. You said that your PH Exec Board made this decision. I would check your PH Bylaws. Usually changes can only be made by a vote of the CHAPTERS.
In any case, I would think that your pledge pin becomes part of your badge upon initiation and therefore is no longer considered a "pledge pin" but is part of your badge. In Delta Zeta, we turn in our plege pins at initiation so this would not apply to us.
Talking about bizarre rules, at the school where I used to be, we had a rule about isolation where a rushee could not be in another room where there were no other rushees. At our house, we have a tile change from the foyer to the back room so even though they were in plain sight of the other rushees, we got turned in because the rushee stepped over the tile change! Thankfully, we got rid of that ambiguous rule!
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