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Old 10-21-2008, 10:47 PM
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Is there a dress code for this organization at meetings? If not, why are you being restricted from wearing your letters? Last time I checked, unless something is extremely offensive, a professor or coach has little room to say anything about what you wear.
True.. but pick your battles.

Fighting with a professor/coach is just not worth it when all you have to do is wear something else.
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Old 10-22-2008, 12:51 AM
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I only know of a couple of isolated situations in undergrad where people got flack for being greek. Most orgs were pretty receptive of greek members because they knew that greeks were known for being the involved, leader types.

I had a friend who was an honors/academic fraternity member freshman year. Well, the next year, she decided she wanted to be in a sorority as well. She went through recruitment and got a bid from my chapter. She still stayed active in the fraternity though and was even chair of a couple of committees.

Later on in the fall semester, it was time for the fraternity to give out little brothers, and she was really excited about it. She ended up not getting one and was really upset. She told me she didn't get one, and I suggested that she email the member in charge of it and ask why. She showed me the email response from the officer in charge and it said "We generally don't give little brothers to sorority members because they don't have the time for one." I was surprised by that response, because I was part of a service org myself and was allowed to take a little sister.

She called her fraternity big bro about it, and he told her something like "well, really, we can't tell members not to go greek, but we kind of discourage it." She was pretty upset that a fraternity she'd been in for a year and a half had such sentiments about greek life. So she got fed up and quit soon after.

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Old 10-22-2008, 09:11 AM
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True.. but pick your battles.

Fighting with a professor/coach is just not worth it when all you have to do is wear something else.
True, pick your battles. So why is the professor choosing this one?

He could leave her alone, also, and just ignore the fact that she's wearing what she wants to. If other people don't like it, too bad for them. If any professor asked me to remove my letters or not wear them because they didn't like Greek life, that's too bad for them, because there's no way I'd change my life for someone who doesn't agree with something I do. Especially if part of that something is simply wearing some funny-looking letters on a shirt.
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Old 10-22-2008, 10:17 AM
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If the coach is encouraging this behavior, you are definitely being harassed - especially if participation in the team is something you are doing because of the career you are going to go into and therefore you don't want to just tell him to f.o. and drop out. Do everything Senusret said.
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