[Eupolis]

I don't think I've run into someone who was wearing letters who turned out not to be authentic. At least, not someone whose letters signalled that I should think they were in a GLO. If I did, though, I'd be disappointed too.

Here's what I mean about what different uses of our names signal to me:

I just looked more closely than usual at the screen prints on my old party shirts from several years back. It looks like my chapter usually put our spelled-out name on shirts advertising or commemorating parties or events, but the Greek letters usually appeared on the shirt somewhere as well. The thing is, it was patently obvious that the shirt was to commemorate the party (the rest of campus usually could get left-over shirts only at or after the party) and not to signal membership. (I'm not aware of anything in my fraternity's regulations on the matter of shirts.)

We restricted our fraternity letters that signalled membership to members, though pinned girlfriends sometimes wore them. A few people who objected to the practice of pinning probably objected to that as well, but no more than that.

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Mu Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, init. '96