Drinking in Letters

[pshsx1]

Why should I take my letters off to drink? My alumni say it best: "Don't do anything in your letters that you wouldn't do out of them."

If I get trashed right now, every soul at this school knows I'm a SigEp. Doesn't make a difference.

No matter the age, though, I don't let drinks get in my pictures. I need to look presentable to corporate FB creepers, duh! On top of that, I'm an employee of the University.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Optimus Prime

Actually after thinking about it, I guess we could be considered dry because we aren't allowed to have drinking at our events or in our house. Are all NPC considered dry? I've never really asked before.

All NPC facilities are supposed to be dry. As for the organizations themselves, no, none of them are. If chapters choose to pass chapter policies prohibiting any members to drink at any function, that's their business (although I've never heard of such a thing).

Originally Posted by pshsx1

If I get trashed right now, every soul at this school knows I'm a SigEp. Doesn't make a difference.

Yeah, that's why this whole debate is really ridiculous to most people from small schools.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yeah, that's why this whole debate is really ridiculous to most people from small schools.

Yea, that's definitely a big part of it.

My alma mater had ~25k students (33k now), so lots of non-Greeks had no idea what was going on in our bubble.

On top of that -- as much as I love my organization, I did/do have a life outside of it. Because I had to represent other things at non-Greek functions, it wasn't a big deal for me to "not be ODPhi" from time to time, and as such, I wasn't wearing letters 24/7. Unless I was at a specific Greek social function, I was just "k_s," not "odphi_k_s"

[Optimus Prime]

[QUOTE=33girl;2039582]All NPC facilities are supposed to be dry. As for the organizations themselves, no, none of them are. If chapters choose to pass chapter policies prohibiting any members to drink at any function, that's their business (although I've never heard of such a thing).


Ah, thank you!

[lucgreek]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Yeah, that's why this whole debate is really ridiculous to most people from small schools.

On my campus (a little less than 10k undergrads) it was completely taboo to be seen drinking with your letters on in public (or have any FB pictures with letters and alcohol). This was pretty universal among all IFC and NPC groups. The reason being was it just plays up the stereotype of greek life being only about partying and drinking. And on a campus our size, it would play into the minds of people to not join because of those stereotypes.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by lucgreek

On my campus (a little less than 10k undergrads) it was completely taboo to be seen drinking with your letters on in public (or have any FB pictures with letters and alcohol). This was pretty universal among all IFC and NPC groups. The reason being was it just plays up the stereotype of greek life being only about partying and drinking. And on a campus our size, it would play into the minds of people to not join because of those stereotypes.

At my school (a little less than 5k undergrads), the fraternity members all drank in their letters - for the most part, at their own parties - the sororities didn’t. Until.. I saw one sorority member drinking in her letters at a fraternity party. I thought it odd, but obviously didn’t say anything to her about it. Then a few months later, I saw more of her sisters doing the same thing out at the corner college bar (alumnae included), and I just assumed that it was OK in their organization. I think that seeing the split between the groups – the fraternities do it, the sororities don’t – originally just made me think that this is the way it was. Obviously that view eventually changed, but the whole situation wasn’t something I dwelled on.

Thinking back, I was simply told as a new member, “We don’t drink in letters.” No one questioned it, no one thought it to be a ridiculous rule… we just followed it. I think that the reasons why (it’s “disrespectful”) were just assumed… at least on my campus. I can’t say if others had reasons (official or not) explained to them.

The list that I provided earlier is just assumed reasons as to why a national organization might apply this rule.