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Re: Are NM sisters? Yes they are. They don't know everything about fraternity yet, but as soon as you pin then, I say they're your sister. You're going to protect and support them as you would a sister. We have a NM period to allow the NM to learn about the organization. But, really, decision on whether to allow a women into the organization is done before she gets a bid, not after. I don't know about your organization, but it's really hard to force a NM to depledge where I am.
Re: Should NM wear letters? Hazing or not, not allowing NM to wear letters is silly IMHO. I mean, she's walking around wearing your NM pin, which often she doesn't know the true meaning of. She's representing your organization already. What's the deal with letters? If it's because she doesn't know the meaning of them - let's start reconsidering our NM pins....
Re: What if they depledge and own letters? Yes, those who depledge COULD still wear letters around? But really - how are you going to ensure that a NM never gets letters? Anyone can walk onto buykappa.com and buy a Kappa t-shirt. It's not like our badge or NM pin which must be ordered through HQ. NM can get letters, and if they depledge they could still wear them. Denying NM of the "right" of wearing letters doesn't stop this.
However, I'll note that no chapter should ever be forced to buy all their NM letters. Mine doesn't. We make our first set the night before initiation at the initiation sleep over. It's fun. However, if a NM was to buy letters before initiation - there would be no issue in them wearing them.
The travelling consultant put it best when she was here and this whole issue came up (some people in my chapter were really anti-NM-letters) she said: "What are you going to do if a NM wears letters? Kick her out? Isn't Kappa about more than t-shirts and letters?"
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