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Originally posted by AXPGoBot
wptw:
I agree with you completely. It also scares the shit out of me the way some of these people make so lightly off their letters. To all those out there who don't want to have to pledge and just want to be handed letters and strut around in them, I have this to say to you: It's a mockery of the Greek system and you should be ashamed of yourselves, as I would be ashamed to call such people fellow Greeks. Nationwide we are in trouble of either dying out completey or becoming so diluted and careless that we're barely a shadow of what our founders intended. THAT thought scares me, and with attitudes like that, I weep for the future.
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WE ARE NOT MAKING LIGHTLY OF OUR LETTERS. For you to call Gamma Phi Beta a mockery of the Greek system makes you look like a donky. We're not having membership problems, we're expanding. The policy of wearing letters being permissible as a new member is not just from my "small struggling chapter" that you claim is "desperate for members" which is obviously why we've existed for longer than our Alpha chapter.
It's an international policy in our bylaws. If you want to disrespect us for that, fine. I don't think any of our Panhellenic sister will be very impressed.
and wptw, now that I'm done being angry, you make some very good points, some of which are why I only wore letters as a pledge when asked to, and then wore them quite a bit after initiation (like, two weeks in a row.
). Truthfully, I consider my badge (or crest) to be a more outward representation of my sorority than our letters. I think this is partially because a lot of non-Greeks don't realize that our letters mean anything, but they know there is "secret stuff" on the badge/crest, and partially because everybody can tell I'm a Gamma Phi when I'm wearing letters, but when wearing a badge or even a crest, usually only other sisters will recognize that I'm a Gamma Phi.