Sweethearts wearing letters?

[shinerbock]

Miami? Glad you enjoy it. Personally, I do my best not to venture into the "real Florida" below Jacksonville.

[A Random DphiE]

Originally posted by shinerbock
Miami? Glad you enjoy it. Personally, I do my best not to venture into the "real Florida" below Jacksonville.

miami abides by its own norms and rules. i'd rather live in the northeast, but until i'm done w/ grad school... i'm stuck living in this limbo.

[shinerbock]

That settles it, me and you could not be friends...Thinking of all the nice places you pass/fly over traveling from the NE to Miami...

[A Random DphiE]

that's a damn shame. here i was hoping to find a real friend via the internet. [sigh]

[shinerbock]

I know its too bad. Thank God for eharmony right.

[georgewallace3]

Originally posted by ThetaChiGuy
I would never give my letters to anyone that was not a brother. Period.

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So you wouldn't let a girl have a shirt with your letters on them?

[A Random DphiE]

Originally posted by shinerbock
I know its too bad. Thank God for eharmony right.

yup. you figured me out.

you're good. real gooooooooood.

[NUBlue&Blue]

Back in the dark ages of the 80's, I wore the letters of the fraternity where I was a little sister as often as I wore my own (but I think it was because I really liked the sweatshirt--you know how some sweatshirts just feel better than others--and my boyfriend, now husband was also in that house). We all had them, and we all wore them and it was no big deal. I believe that the only thing that an uninitiated member couldn't wear was the crest, and we couldn't have it on our little sister paddles either.

In my sorority, we weren't supposed to wear the letters until after initiation, so all of our pledge shirts had the words written out, and our first gift after initiation was usually something with the letters and crest.

This was 20 years ago, no clue what they do now--I don't think little sisters even exist anymore, do they?

We still have a bunch of old party tshirts with different greek letters on them, and we've let our kids wear them for 80's day, etc. for homecoming week. And I've seen the XYZ mom/dad stuff, but I really wouldn't feel comfortable wearing them at all....my daughter's campus doesn't have my house, so she is something else. I would wear my own letters before I would wear that, and so would my husband.

[carnation]

NuBlue&Blue, I pmed you. Please check your box!

[AOxcutiexPI]

yes at our school, the point of being a sweetheart is that you are like a brother and so as in honor of that they name you their sweetheart and give you permission to wear their letters just like a brother (kinda like theyre own way of intiation)

[tsutexann14]

Here if your greek you can pretty much were any other greeks stuff, we have greek week and stuff like that and we get t-shirts made, but as far as none greeks go its usually the girls that are "dropped" or they are a sweetheart!

Shannon
Sigma Alpha~Alpha Zeta #109
Tarleton State Universtiy
"Good, Better, Best.
Never let it rest,
Until your good is better,
and your better is best!" -???

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by tsutexann14

Here if your greek you can pretty much were any other greeks stuff, we have greek week and stuff like that and we get t-shirts made, but as far as none greeks go its usually the girls that are "dropped" or they are a sweetheart!

Um, what???

[RutgersPIKE]

I don't think anyone but initiated members should wear the letters period. I mean if pledges arent allowed to wear the letters, and they must earn that honor, then why should people who dont do anything pledge wise be able to wear the letters. The letters represent a bond between the brothers and have some meaning behind them, if random people just wear these letters without knowing the meaning behind them then i think its just wrong. Only initiated members should wear the letters

[banditone]

Some of our sweethearts did more for the chapter then some pledges.

[SWTXBelle]

RutgersPIKE - many GLOs allow pledges to wear letters. The idea of "earning" your letters is now seen as an invitation to haze. Wearing letters indicates you are a member (even if a pledge) of that GLO. I like "mom" shirts - i.e. Gamma Phi Beta mom, Sigma Chi dad; and I also like legacy shirts (I'm in the process of getting some for my sons). Then there are the shirts for events such as Greek Week or Derby Days, which feature all of the letters of different GLOs. Do you not wear shirts like that, and is that a personal preference or a II K A philosophy? Not being snarky - I really am interested in knowing what different national/international GLOs have to say about the issue.