Jackets/Coats

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Phisigshawna10

I hope they keep ordering them because they're a great PR tool.

PR, as in public relations? Wearing our letters has a public relations effect but is that the first thing that comes to mind when some Greeks wear their letters?

/just curious

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

PR, as in public relations? Wearing our letters has a public relations effect but is that the first thing that comes to mind when some Greeks wear their letters?

/just curious

At a school with a very small %age of Greeks, which this is, making people aware that you exist is pretty much essential to survival.

We do have a special "jacket ritual" that we do at every meeting, to make sure our jackets are purified to begin the week. It makes them kind of like Superman's cape, no harm can befall us when we have them on and they've been properly purified, nor will we veer in any way shape or form from our ideals. When the weather gets too warm to wear them though, we're kind of screwed. Thankfully Clarion only has 12.689 warm days during the year.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by 33girl

At a school with a very small %age of Greeks, which this is, making people aware that you exist is pretty much essential to survival.

True statement.

At Penn State Behrend, we had jackets (the pullovers with front pockets and a light fleece-type lining) and jerseys, which everyone received at initiation. Each sorority’s jackets and jerseys were their “main” color… AST = Green, ASA = Red, TPA = Blue. Before I joined, I remember thinking “Oh, there are the red ones..” or “Those green ones always eat lunch together..” and many (if not all) of my sisters will admit to thinking the same thing. When on a campus where people don’t even know what being Greek is all about, where the majority of the people who join never had any intention of doing so when coming to college, and where chapters can be as small as 10 members, I think it definitely helps.