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Originally posted by carnation
Pi Phi's new members can only wear the words "Pi Beta Phi"; they can't use the Greek letters or the crest until after initiation. There was a thread on this awhile back but I have no clue how to find that one!
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I was also told that as a "pledge" I was not allowed to wear letters until initiated. I was completely fine with that and while I was a pledge I didn't feel it was right to wear something that I did not know the meaning of, but that was just my personal feelings. We are apparently mistaken. There is no mention of this rule in our C&S and there is actually a thread about this in the Pi Phi forum on the Bid-Day t-shirt thread. It was clarified by our Director of Academics, Karen Gunther in this thread. I'll post the link.
Bid Day t-shirt thread
edited to add: It is considered hazing when new members are not allowed to wear/have, carry, etc the same things as active members, I know by our headquarters and I assume NPC. My chapter in no way was intentionally hazing, but we were all under the impression that it was a rule.