I THINK MY POST IS GOING TO BE LONG SORRY GUYS:
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Originally Posted by SNUIGC
I know that this is a stupid question that most everyone's probably going to go "doh!" over... so bear in mind, I'm from a colony and none of us were ever "frat guys" until now....so...calling badge......means....what?
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Let me give you a little advice. Some guys will rip your head off for calling Sigma Nu a "Frat" and you may hear a little saying that says "don't call my Fraternity a Frat, you don't want me calling your country a c..." I don't want to write the word here but you can figure it out. It is an issue of respect and Honor and the word Frat has a very negative image. It is a personal choice but you may want to pass that on to your Colony Brothers. It adds a little class when people never hear you say the word Frat. One time I actually corrected a Proffesor who asked the first day of class "are there and Frat boys in this class" I raised my hand and said "no sir but there are 7 Fraternity men here and we all plan on earning "A"s in your class." We backed it up and of the 7 (3 Sigma Nus, 2 Sigma Chis, a TKE, and a Sig Ep) 6 received "A"s and one dropped the class. I had the same professor the following quarter and he asked me to stay after class and it turned out that he was a Sigma Nu from an East Coast school and he only asked the question the previous quarter because he saw me and two of the other SNUs wearing letters and he hoped that we would answer the question that way. He actually wrote me a letter of rec for my current position with my Firm.
NOW BACK TO THE BADGE TOPIC:
It has always been frowned upon to call badge within your own class in our chapter.
We use badge for lineup purposes when entering meeting. Badge also comes into play when we have buffet style meals at our preference dinner and at formal. The ladies go first then badge number order.
As for badge numbers order in my chapter each class votes on their own class we have always felt that the class has a better understanding of what the candidates each did our order is as follows:
President of Class
VP of Class
Treasurer
Recorder
Candidate of Class (Voted by fellow Candidate receiver of the most Votes)
2nd most
3rd most
etc...
We have a few exceptions where if a guy doesn't make grades he falls to the Brothered/Neophyte status and receives the lowest chapter badge number. If there are multiple guys that don't make grades they go in order by the votes again.
Our other exception would be if we are going to hit a milestone and the Candidate of the class gets that badge number unless that badge falls in to one of the top four positions. When we got to 200 we hit it on the nose and the brother got the lowest badge issued to his class. He didn't care he gets to wear 200 and he cherishes his number as if it were his left foot.
Badge number is just a sign of respect for your fraternal superiors and I am sure we all wished guys would just respect the higher badges without anything being said.
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