[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by exlurker
In general I agree with 33girl's point, although I would add that chapters can also "educate" members about the option of choosing to drink -- or switch to -- non-alcoholic beverages when doing so makes sense.

Now for one more question: for chapters / campuses where "drinking in letters" is frowned upon, what about symbol bracelets and lavaliers? Not ones with actual letters or crests; I'm talking about silver or gold bracelets with "links" of arrows, keys, anchors, tridents, kite outlines, owl outlines, violets, diamond shapes surrounding pi, quatrefoil shapes, and so on, or the lavalier equivalents. Are they considered to be like "letters," or are they supposedly neutral enough that they can be worn while drinking? Just wondering -- I have no idea. (And for all I know, those kinds of jewelry items may not be particularly in fashion right now at a lot of campuses.)

I don't think these are letter equivalents - at our convention this summer we received some really cute crescent moon necklaces as a gift and I've worn mine to the bars. I think anybody who knows enough to say "Oh, she's wearing a crescent moon, she must be a Gamma Phi" would also know that I was a Gamma Phi without my having the necklace on.