Lavaliering your girl is considered SERIOUS business for most fraternities. For Pike, it is considered to be equivilent to a pre-engagement type of thing, and is NOT something most guys would do for a girlfriend of 10 months. But like I said, it differs from group to group. For me, I lavaliered my girlfriend of THREE YEARS with a small ceremony that showed her what those letters meant to me.
When I was thinking of "dropping" her (I'd never heard that term before now, but I get it...you give her a charm of drop letters...cute) I asked my Big Brother about the proper way to do it and he clued me in to traditions and ways other guys had done it. For most sororities, when a girl is lavaliered, they hold a "candel light ceremony" for her, so that might be a way to go...you do it in front of her sisters and they ALL cry.
But BEWARE...some fraternities have a tradition of "treeing" Brothers who lavalier girls. Getting treed depends on your frat and sometimes how serious your Brothers think your relationship with your girl is, as well as how closely the members regard giving away your letters.
[This message has been edited by Pike4Life (edited December 07, 2000).]
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