Wearing letters

[Pike1483]

My chapter lets guys wear our greek letters and get liscence plates and all that as soon as you're a pledge. We do have a rule against wearing the shield until your a member, though. I'm not sure what our national policy is on the situation.
I know I really enjoyed wearing letters when I was a pledge. It was my first semester at school as a Freshmen, and wearing letters got me noticed, and it was just cool to be a Pike, and the letters were just a reminder. Our chapter's theory is that wearing letters is great publicity for the fraternity, and we're all proud of our fraternity, members and pledges, so we wanted people to know that.
Like most people have said, it's pretty much whatever your GLO's policy is. I think it's cool that some people wait 'till initiation, because it has a special meaning to them, but I like the way my chapter did it.

What about Non-Members wearing letters? I'm talking about Non-Members and Non-Pledges. Does your GLO have specific rules about this? I'm not sure what our national policy is (I'll have to look it up). I know at my chapter, Girls wear our letters all the time on different T-shirts and Pike-Girl shirts and stuff. We also let legacies wear letters, but that's really up to their father or brother getting them a t-shirt or something. My sister used to get me Pike T-Shirts when I was still in High School. I'm a legacy Pike, and my sis was dating a Pike, so I had some connections in getting T-Shirts.