[AlphaPhiBubbles]

I look at it this way, that person bears your organization's and chapter's name during their new member period. Their actions can be just as damaging to your chapter or organization as an initiated member

I'm sorry but I have to disagree...the point of the new member period is to really decide if these women are true "XYZ" material. You can't learn much about a person through a week or so's worth of formal parties. I know that many times, a chapter does discover things about a new member that they would rather not have as part of the chapter, thus they do not become an "XYZ" sister...

In my personal experience we have had new members who did extremely embarassing (and I don't mean like wearing white after labor day) things, but since everyone knew they were a new member, it didn't represent our chapter necesarily because the women were not initiated. It's a trial period for a reason.

The letters arent' important, it's the prinicples behind them that matter.

But the letters are a very important symbol of what those principles are. I would very much dislike someone non-alpha phi wearing my letters, BECAUSE they don't know what they mean, and they don't have to right to represent my organization.

ShaunaF01 - I know that A Phi Int. says that keeping a NM from wearing letters is hazing, but we always figured that just because that might be true, doesn't mean we HAVE to give them letters. We can choose whatever we want to give as gifts, but if they went out and bought letters on their own we could not stop them from wearing it. That was just my chapter's take on the situation.