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Originally posted by adpiucf
There is such a negative exisiting perception of Greeks being whorish alcoholics that it only makes sense to avoid any sort of GLO-affiliation with your attire when you are acting loud and obnxious, drinking alcohol or looking to get your groove on. It's a PR thing. If we come off looking like polished, classy students with our letters on, that's good PR.
I'm not advocating binge drinking and rowdy behavior just because you aren't wearing letters-- even when you are not wearing your letters, people tend to know "who" you are. But college is a place to make mistakes-- hence all the over-drinking-- make your mistakes wisely. Stay safe.
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I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way, but...
At one point, my chapter was known as the "prude" chapter, where noone drank and noone had fun. In fact, a couple of non-greeks thought we were one of the community service sororities. So, as a "PR" move, we started letting our letters "slip out" at parties. Nothing drastic, but maybe we'd make sure to mention we were in a sorority while drinking, or "accidentally" leave our keychains on our keyrings. It was nothing that other sororities hadn't been doing for years, but it helped us lose our reputation as the "non-fun" sorority.
Also, something that we always have said to our new members, and that was said to us is that as large as our school is (I went to U of S. Carolina), Greek Life is small, and for the most part everyone knows what sorority everyone is in, anyway. You should always act with your letters off as you would with them on.
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