Never having been laveliered in college (at a school where it most definitely was done
) I would have loved to participate in the tradition. Not enough to put up with any of the guys I had any hope of getting to that point with, but still...
But I think it does bring up an interesting question about same-sex sharing of letters and men or women who are both part of different fraternities. I find it more interesting than important to resolve, but I can't help but think this is a kumbayah moment. I wasn't in college THAT long ago, and there's no way in hell this issue would have been discussed with a straight face or without a huge dose of derision. Now, I remember a guy friend telling me some of the fraternities should have been having exchanges (as we called them, mixers, parties, whatever you call them) with EACH OTHER. But that was a pretty controversial thing to say. There wouldn't have been a glimmer of a thought that this Kappa Sig would have worn a Lambda Chi lavelier.