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TKN usage = innapropriate
I thought it was pretty much out of respect for the men we absorbed into our fraternity (and disbanded theirs) that we end using their insignia without permission. I know we promised them that they're Ritual would never be used without their permission (Just as they promised the last time it would be conducted was at “the merger meeting”), but I'm not sure about their letters. Since they're letters did represent everything they were about, and not what Lambda Chi Alpha was or is about...I think it's highly inappropriate for us to think we can wear those.
I’m pretty sure the only things we were allowed to absorb were the chapters, the physical and financial assets (however small they were), the COA qualities and VQV(E) motto, the A.M. Pin design, and their ritual transformed into the Pledge Ceremony (now A.M.C.)…Thankfully, we also got “Dad” and other transformational assistants. I do not believe we were ever given the right to adopt their fraternity letters.
I could imagine that whenever a LCA member would want to wear those, it would never be out of “remembrance” for TKN (I believe still disrespectful), but rather to wear fraternity letters while not wanting to wear LCA letters. For example, I've seen a chapter do this to get away from "drinking in letters" because they're not really "our" letters, but in the end I think anyone who does that is not only disrespecting TKN, but also intentionally tarnishing what they stand for. In my opinion, totally inappropriate.
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