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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
You are absolutely right about this, and I think that's why it's going to be hard to get advice from NPC and IFCers about this issue.
I don't think anyone wants to see someone representing their organization poorly, as a random drug-abusing homeless guy wearing the lettered shirt he got from a charity might.*
But since as far as I know, most NPC and IFC groups are not that protective about who wears their letters informally, like on date night shirts or philanthropy events, we're not going to be as outraged if we suspect that a non-member is wearing our letters generally.
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Exactly, I'm glad you understand
And it's not like the letters mean more to us or anything, just that the physical letters are not meant to ever get put on by non-members or even touch the floor. Just a symbolic thing.
There's often a concern that you may not be viewed as a "good lambda" if you don't treat the physical letters with enough respect, and thus even though lambda houses tend to be extremely dirty and disgusting, with beer bottles, random shoes and socks and chips lying all over the ground, you'll never see anything with letters on the ground (though you'll probably see them messily piled up on sofas or chairs or sometimes any object sufficiently clean as long as it's higher than the floor
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The same goes with dealing with non-lambdas wearing letters, and some bros may be worried that if they don't act or are too passive they'll be met with some disapproval and lose face. We're more often concerned about how to handle depledges and possible haters who wear letters or flash our signs to spite us... that's why we had no idea how to deal with random strangers. Honestly, we didn't even know if we should
consider it a big deal or not because we just never thought about it before!
So understandably, those guys were at a loss of what to do (especially since many of them were proud idealistic neos with the pledging experience fresh in their minds)
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*To tell you the truth if I saw it, I think I'd think "how nice of that XYZ to give away his old clothes to charity."
Something else worth considering is that people may think they have founded a new local with those letters, and not realize yet the letter belong to a national organization.
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Haha, I never thought about it that way.
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