The only time I have heard of the badge having to be returned to the National Office, or is property of the National Office, is with a few select sororities. Although, its not like that is everyday conversation, so I am sure it is more standard than I think.
I do not believe the Badge of Beta Theta Pi is General Fraternity property, therefore our badge can be handed down, donated, buried, made into a necklace/ring...etc.
I still think people need to get over the whole pin thing on eBay. I think its great that people want to save pins and send them to HQ and all, but lets be realistic. There is just too much of it going on, and a lot less rich people willing to throw up literally tens of thousands of dollars to rescue them all.
No hard feelings, but this is like the Taliban taking on the US of A.....a battle that cannot be won.
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Originally posted by SSS1365
I find the whole idea of pin collectors quite irritating. Of course I understand that there is nothing I can do about it when a badge from my sorority is up for auction, but it's frustrating all the same when you see that the winning bidder is not a member of your GLO. I don't think I'll ever understand why a person would want a badge to whose organization they were never a member. I earned my badge by learning what it means, and it can never mean anything to someone who has never learned it. And I assure you that if I ever did purchase another GLO's badge, it would be for the purpose of returning it to that GLO.
What I think even a lot of members sometimes fail to understand is that that badge belongs to their national organization. I was told during my pledge period that when I die, my badge is to either be sent to nationals or buried with me. And when a member terminates her membership, she must return the badge to nationals. I KNOW that MANY, if not all, other national GLOs have the same policies, so there's no excuse for these pins to keep popping up on ebay. I don't care what excuses the collectors come up with, I will NEVER understand why they want them!
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