Event T-shirts with Letters on Pledges?

[Scandia]

In Alpha Phi Omega, a plege could not wear the 3 greek letters together at all. In fact, our paddles had Phi spelled out in Roman alphabet letters. Our pledge class party T-shirt had only Delta Eta spelled out and in Greek letters. No mention of A Phi O. I still have that T-shirt. But after initiation, one of the first things I did was get a t-shirt with the Greek letters. I eventually got two more.

[Adelphean]

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[RU OX Alum]

pledges should have nothing that the brothers don't give them

[emb021]

Originally Posted by Scandia

In Alpha Phi Omega, a plege could not wear the 3 greek letters together at all. In fact, our paddles had Phi spelled out in Roman alphabet letters. Our pledge class party T-shirt had only Delta Eta spelled out and in Greek letters. No mention of A Phi O. I still have that T-shirt. But after initiation, one of the first things I did was get a t-shirt with the Greek letters. I eventually got two more.

APO's policy is that items that indicate membership (letter shirts with greek letters, badge, etc) may not be worn by non-members (including pledges), but event shirts are not considered as an indication of membership, thus its ok for pledges to wear them. Pledge class t-shirts would spell out "APO" and not use greek letters, to avoid that issue..

Chapters that use paddles in their pledge class (I know of one that has their pledges use them to gather signatures), do what you discribe.

Most chapters will present their new Brothers with a letter shirt right after induction (usually paid for &/or presented by the pledge's Big).