Letters on Bid Day???

[carnation]

Originally Posted by angelove

Not sure exactly what you mean, but everything was different back then. Pledgeship (now known as "new member period") was at least a semester long, usually not initiated until Feb after pledging in August. Frills rush, scavenger hunts, initiation in the order of your gpa, etc.

We couldn't even write the greek letters or draw an arrow. I don't know if this was just our chapter, but we couldn't even have anything with letters or an arrow on it. Seems kind of harsh, but I never seemed to really mind as a pledge. I just looked forward to being able to wear them after initiation.

I just remembered that for prefs, we were given an arrow lavaliere. But you're right, it was so wonderful to finally be able to wear the letters and crest! After initiation, we raced to our cars to slap on crest decals!

[angelove]

The new member pin is actually a dart, so not technically an arrow. We did have a wooden arrow (kind of like a paddle) that we would have all of the initiated sisters sign, then we turned it in before Christmas break and then got it back after initiation all decorated.

It was kind of funny because all of our event tshirts for the whole chapter would have Pi Beta Phi spelled out so that everyone could wear them, then once initiation came around all of the tshirts would have greek letters on them.

And yes, I remember I couldn't wait to put the decals on my car! And find a piece of paper so I could write out the greek letters!

[honeychile]

We got our first "official" letter shirts during Friendship Week, but there was never a problem with wearing them prior to then. We did, however, have to wear our pledge pins at ALL times - even to bed!

[Emilyzd]

Originally Posted by honeychile

We got our first "official" letter shirts during Friendship Week, but there was never a problem with wearing them prior to then. We did, however, have to wear our pledge pins at ALL times - even to bed!

We wore our new member pins when we "pin dressed" during the week and to our chapter meetings.

[aephi alum]

Alpha Epsilon Phi does not allow anyone other than an initiated sister to wear the Greek letters. New members, significant others, et al can wear shirts that say "Alpha Epsilon Phi" spelled out, or "AEPhi", but not the Greek letters. We waste no time giving our new members bid day gifts and ribbons, but they have to wait until initiation to wear the letters.

A number of NPC sororities don't allow new members to own anything with the crest. AEPhi's new member pin actually is the crest, slightly modified to remove the Greek letters.

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