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My university didn't have the PNM's wearing similar shirts to us, but each chapter did have a similar shirt (Panhellenic Spirit) that we all wore on the first day of recruitment, but each chapter had a different color of writing on the front of the shirt (ADPi was kind of a turquoisy-blue, Gamma Phi Beta was purple, etc)....At times I would think THAT would be more confusing than EVERYONE wearing the same shirt...along those lines, I think they idea of when everyone's wearing the same shirt and the concern of the PNMs is that they all blend together and the sorority woman mentioning that it helps them to focus on the individual herself and not what she is wearing is excellent!

I can see the benefits of having everyone wear the Panhellenic shirts for one night (it's a nifty keepsake from recruitment for the PNM's, I guess), but I agree with honey...the money would be better spent elsewhere, I'm sure.