more of my two cents on another topic in this post!
To wear the letters of another chapter, IMHO it should only be when you attended an event hosted by that chapter. If the Sigma Chis and the Tri-Deltas have a 60's-themed exchange and they get together and print a tie-dyed T-shirt with the date and both letters, then both members can wear that shirt with pride, because it represents a function that both participated in. Or, if you are invited by a fraternity brother as his date to his winter formal, he might give you the T-shirt made for that function, which will bear his letters and the date. As an official guest of the fraternity for that evening, I think that it is okay to wear those letters in that respect. Hypothetically, I don't think that people look at that girl in that t-shirt and think "oh, who does she think she is? is she aspiring to the ritual of XYZ Fraternity?"
"Little Sister" and "sweetheart" programs, while definitely outlawed by national IFC org.s, are still in existence at lots of schools. At some schools and some fraternities, brothers allow "little sisters" to wear their letters as an indicator to the rest of the campus that she is "affiliated" with that group. Personally I disagree with this practice... but it is one of those long-standing Greek traditions that will take decades to erase.
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