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Originally posted by AXO Alum
Does your HQ say its okay for your chapter (and others) to make this distinction? Do they know that you don't allow them to wear letters?
See, AXO would have a big huge problem with this -- if I saw a post on here from an AXO chapter saying "AXO as a whole allows them to wear letters, but my chapter doesn't" then I'm here to say that they would be getting an email about it.
Don't get me wrong SSS1365 -- I am not trying to call you out on this, as you say that it is tradition for the campus -- I am simply saying that as an Alpha Chi, I would be greatly disturbed seeing this from another one of my chapters. I just believe that for Alpha Chi, the rules that HQ passes down are not negotiable...period. Even when they seem to be petty and out-dated. I guess that being a CA though reminds me that I am responsible for the actions of my chapter -- and I don't want to have to explain myself to National Council about hazing or any other questionable situations.
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I see what you're saying, but I think my chapter's tradition has more to do with the campus tradition. Honestly I don't know if our national knows, but I can say that visiting consultants never questioned why the new members weren't wearing stitched letters.
Personally, like so many others on this thread have said, I wouldn't have wanted to wear the letters as a new member. It would make receiving your first letters from your big less meaningful. And I'm pretty sure everyone in my chapter feels/felt the same way. I mean, it was pretty exciting to look forward to getting letters. If I had been wearing them the whole time it would have been like "So what? Big deal." Just my personal opinion.
Also, I don't think wearing letters that you don't know the meaning of makes much sense. And we are NOT supposed to reveal the meaning until initiation. Like I said, our new members had screen-printed letters that from a distance looked EXACTLY like the stitched letters.