Pledge Pins On T-Shirts

[JDCookMS]

Our rule is that if you are wearing a shirt with a collar, you wear your pin, if you are wearing a tie, you wear your pin. Wearing a pledge pin on a t-shirt is not acceptable on our campus.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by JDCookMS

Wearing a pledge pin on a t-shirt is not acceptable on our campus.

It seems to me that this shouldn't be a matter of what is acceptable on one's campus. It should be a matter of what is expected and acceptable in one's fraternity or sorority. Do what your GLO expects and accepts and don't worry about it if other GLOs do it differently.

ETA: Of course, if a GLO's practice is that chapters can decide for themselves when and where pledge pins should be worn, then certainly the chapter can take campus culture into account. I just would not want to see a chapter feeling like it had to choose between following the expectations placed on it by its GLO or acceeding to what is or isn't acceptable to chapters of other GLOs on its campus.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by JDCookMS

Our rule is that if you are wearing a shirt with a collar, you wear your pin, if you are wearing a tie, you wear your pin. Wearing a pledge pin on a t-shirt is not acceptable on our campus.

I presume that you mean that your *chapter* doesn't allow it rather than it being a campus wide rule.

I just can't see *any* school administration caring whether a pledge pin is on a t-shirt of a collared shirt and a hard time imagining the IFC caring. Panhellenic *maybe*.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by naraht

I presume that you mean that your *chapter* doesn't allow it rather than it being a campus wide rule.

I just can't see *any* school administration caring whether a pledge pin is on a t-shirt of a collared shirt and a hard time imagining the IFC caring. Panhellenic *maybe*.

He can clarify, but I took him to mean it wasn't consistent with the Greek culture on his campus, not that it was an institutional or IFC rule.

[AlwaysSAI]

When I was pledging Phi Sigma Pi, we were told to wear our pins ALL THE TIME except for during the 5 S's which were sex, shower, sleep, sports, social (ie-parties). When I was pledging, brothers started to complain that a lot of members in my pledge class weren't wearing our pins, so we were told that if a coat covered our pin and a brother walked by, we had to open our coat so they could see it.

I actually don't remember how it was handled with SAI. I know that when I pledged the chapter was struggling, so I never actually got a pledge pin; which is probably why I don't remember it.

[JDCookMS]

Originally Posted by naraht

I presume that you mean that your *chapter* doesn't allow it rather than it being a campus wide rule.

I just can't see *any* school administration caring whether a pledge pin is on a t-shirt of a collared shirt and a hard time imagining the IFC caring. Panhellenic *maybe*.

MysticCat has it right, my chapter doesn't allow it. However, no GLO on my campus, IFC, NPHC, or CPC would allow their members to wear a pin on their t-shirt. It's not a rule, but it's just not done here.

[naraht]

Originally Posted by JDCookMS

MysticCat has it right, my chapter doesn't allow it. However, no GLO on my campus, IFC, NPHC, or CPC would allow their members to wear a pin on their t-shirt. It's not a rule, but it's just not done here.

I wonder if that has to do with the price of the pledge pins. Alpha Phi Omega's are $5.

[clarinette]

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI

I actually don't remember how it was handled with SAI. I know that when I pledged the chapter was struggling, so I never actually got a pledge pin; which is probably why I don't remember it.

My chapter was told that we could only wear our pledge pins under conditions that the initiated girls wore their member badges (business casual attire, SAI or music related event). Probably because those things are really tiny and hard to find if you lose them.