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Originally Posted by fantASTic
I really guess it depends on how the org feels. My boyfriend is part of a local fraternity with only one chapter; if I wore his letters sweatshirt because I was cold, and he lent it to me, they most certainly would not care. I know all the brothers quite well, despite the fact that they go to a different school several hours away, and we're good friends. If they cared, however, I would definately not want to wear his letters for any reason.
Since they are local, a lot of their rules and regs are much less strict than national GLO's, though, which may explain the fact that they're a lot more lenient. They encourage letter wearing because it gets their letters out there more.
As far as little sisters go, I was told that the REAL reason why it was discontinued is because there began a habit of the big brothers expecting sex from their little sisters - that it was a tradition, and pretty widespread. It sucks that it's not allowed anymore, though, because it would be pretty cool.
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I think even with most nationals it will still be a chapter to chapter thing. I'm friends with lots of my boyfriend's brothers...and I don't think they would go after him or me with pitchforks if I were wearing his jersey or something (though why I would, I don't know) but I do not think they'd be particularly happy with it...and I wouldn't if positions were switched.
As for little sister groups...it seems cool, yeah, and I'm sure there were many that were actually very productive, but I know my mom for one has said that she believed that some were very shady at her alma mater and some were just pretty much useless. The NIC listed the reasons in a previous post and they sound very legitimate to me...it does seem to kind of detract from brotherhood and the privilege of being in XYZ fraternity, to sort of give honorary brother status to girls. I don't think I would join even if they still existed on principal...I don't want to be in an auxilary group of another organization, even if it's a men's group.
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