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Originally posted by kappaloo
In my chapter, drinking with letters on is a very highly discouraged - to the point it's automatic to not wear such things out when I know I'll be drinking. That said, I'm not aware there is an actual standing rule or policy forhibiting it (I could be wrong). However, even if there is not actual rule against it, it doesn't mean you won't end up in standards for it.
Maybe it's just me and my casual attitude towards drinking... but I have absolutely no problem with people have 'a drink' (legally) while showing letters. I agree that we must be careful to act in a manner befitting our organization while we're in public - I just don't see how having wine with my dinner goes against that.
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I agree that there is a world of difference between a 21-year-old having a glass of wine at dinner with her parents while wearing her lavalier, and a 19-year-old falling down drunk and puking in the bushes outside Sig Ep while wearing a date t-shirt.
I think the main issue, if you're the type of person who is so concerned about anti-Greek stereotypes, is just always try to act classy when you could possibly be associated with your sorority. Too many girls think "OK, no drinking in my letters -- I've got it covered." And then they go into class the next morning and say to their friends, "Ohmigod, I got SOOO trashed this weekend at SAE" -- while wearing letters. Or they stumble back to the sorority house on Friday night and they're clearly so drunk it takes them five minutes to figure out their keys. Or a group of drunk girls and their designated driver leave the bar and head to the car with the ABC bumper sticker on it. Or, to share an example from my past that will fortunately never be replicated, a bunch of my friends and I were in my room last year when we got written up for being too noisy and drinking -- and the Bid Day decorations were still on my door. The RA who wrote us up asked, "Hey, so who's the Tri Delt?" It turned out that one of her friends was in the chapter and we bonded as she helped me pour out our beer, but it could just as easily have been someone anti-Greek who used this incident to fuel their fire.