We had ribboning on bid day and our formal pledge ceremony (where you got your pledge pin, which you wore thru the knot in your ribbons) usually a week later, after we had taken all the open bids we were going to take. We had to get rid of it because our nationals called it hazing. How lame! It was because it was an extra ceremony (God forbid anyone should do anything beyond the bare minmum) and because it wasn't in our ritual book. The really dumb thing is, we did it that way out of RESPECT for our ritual - we didn't want to do a white ceremony in our bid day jeans & t-shirts.
I'm with you, Mikki - I was VERY proud to wear my pledge pin & ribbons! We only had to wear them from 8-5 on weekdays, so it wasn't like we had had to go to parties with our giant "PLEDGE" sign on. Another harmless tradition lost...
[This message has been edited by 33girl (edited December 06, 2000).]
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