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Originally posted by Little E
We don't engrave our badges, but I think we are either supposed to be buried with it or have it sent back to HQ when we die.
I guess I took the badge buying to be every badge that went up for sale. And if you did that, even buying all the lower end badges, the calculation for the budget would be hard. I really do like the idea of alumnae buying badges as a way to get involved, and totally applaud the women who do that. I just have reservations about a HQ spending money that could go else where on badges, but that is my personal feeling.
When I was dating a Sig Chi the girlfriend of a Sig Chi wanted to get the guy a new badge, one of the nice ones, she had to give the money to a brother to buy it because of the buying restrictions. At least for AST, our badges are made by Legacy or whatever they are called, but you have to order them through nat'l. You can't just call the jeweler and order directly. It really is to control who buys them, and I'm sure how many they buy.
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We only buy ones (as a group) that are historically significant, according to the criteria set forth by our IC. Those are then donated back to our Foundation Museum as in-kind gifts (for tax deductions).
We have actually reunited a number of badges with their original owners who didn't even know the badge was missing (usually stolen).