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Originally posted by honeychile
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I have to admit that this thread is the very first time I've ever heard of a new member needing to "earn" her letters, in any GLO. I am in complete amazement that y'all don't consider that hazing, yet consider wearing a ribbon with your colors hazing.
honeychile
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I think the reasoning behind it is if the pledge doesn't know any of the meaning behind the letters, she shouldn't wear them. Remember the t-shirts with Chinese characters on them? Apparently they meant nothing and people in China were laughing their butts off at the idiots wearing t-shirts that said "blue madly cat" or something of the like.
ASA can wear letter shirts as soon as we are bid, but our letters (in Greek and English) also correspond to our open motto - Aspire, Seek, Attain. I would not want to wear letters if I had no idea what they meant. We did have to wait to wear/own crests until after initiation and it really made them special.