How protective are you of your letters?

[33girl]

Originally posted by DSTCHAOS
So, what explains when NPC members have different opinions? Is that about the specific sorority cultures or maybe differences in personalities?

Both, I think.

I don't consider a party shirt with 2 or more groups on it or a Greek week shirt to be "someone else wearing my letters." That's an expression of Greek unity, IMO. I also don't understand the compulsion to make new shirts every time you scratch your butt, but that's neither here nor there.

If someone was freezing to death and the only thing I had was a letter sweatshirt - hell yeah. Whatever. You can always turn it inside out.

When it crosses the line is when someone REPEATEDLY wears letters who is not a member and does it with the intent of making others think they are associated with that group. There was a guy who got a hold of one of our sweatshirts and wore it all the time. People thought he was a sweetheart or a little brother - he was most definitely not - and while he was a good guy, we really didn't want anyone to think he represented our sorority in any way. We asked him to stop wearing it, and he did.

I think even the people who have been pretty laissez-faire about nonmembers wearing their letters would agree with that point.

I don't understand the "touching" prohibition either, but I'm not going to tell someone else their feelings are wrong and mine are right. Different things are different. The usage of colors - i.e., an AKA would never wear a letter sweatshirt in anything but pink & green, but an ASA would have no prob with a black sweatshirt w/ leopard print lettters - is another difference I've seen people mention on here. As long as no one's telling me I have to wear red & white only, I don't care what they do.