What happens to your new member / pledge pin when you're initiated?

[dzrose93]

Delta Zeta pledges turn their pins in when they are initiated, and the pins are used again with the next pledge class. To me, it works out well for 2 reasons: 1) it saves sisters money because they don't have to pay for a pledge pin in addition to a badge and 2) because it stays inside the chapter most of the time, there's less chance of a pledge pin being lost and winding up in a non-DZ's hands. Can you imagine someone unknowingly wearing a DZ pledge pin as a tie tack?