Embarrsing another GDI wearing Greek Shirts

Corsulian · #1 12-24-2007, 02:03 AM

Me and a SigEp went outside for a smoke break during finals. It was probably 8AM and we'd been up all night for the 1130AM exam. A girl, either just having pulled an all-nighter or having just passed through our main student union building for a walk of shame (she looked disheveled is all I'm sayin) walked out the door in front of us wearing a lettered Sigma Phi Epsilon hoodie. We were both too tired to say anything and so we just stared. I asked if she was a sweetheart or something and he was just like, "no...I have never seen before...ever...I'm more interested in whoever the hell gave her the stupid hoodie."

Benzgirl · #2 12-24-2007, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Corsulian

...I'm more interested in whoever the hell gave her the stupid hoodie."

Does it make a difference? Maybe her bother, boyfriend or friend was a SigEp at another school and he gave it to her. Or, maybe she went to a Greek store and had it printed up? (oh my!!!!) Or, maybe she got it at Goodwill because someone disgarded it.

When I was in school, it was typical to trade sweatshirts with what ever fraternity you was your partner in Greek Week or Homecoming. It was no big deal because every chapter on our campus did it, and there were over 3000 in the Greek system at the time.

I also can't tell you the number Phi Tau shirts I got off one of my best friends who kept leaving them in my car.

DSTCHAOS · #3 12-24-2007, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Does it make a difference? Maybe her bother, boyfriend or friend was a SigEp at another school and he gave it to her. Or, maybe she went to a Greek store and had it printed up? (oh my!!!!) Or, maybe she got it at Goodwill because someone disgarded it.

When I was in school, it was typical to trade sweatshirts with what ever fraternity you was your partner in Greek Week or Homecoming. It was no big deal because every chapter on our campus did it, and there were over 3000 in the Greek system at the time.

I also can't tell you the number Phi Tau shirts I got off one of my best friends who kept leaving them in my car.

So it's okay for nonGreeks to wear letters and for Greeks to wear one another's letters? No.

1908Revelations · #4 12-24-2007, 01:37 PM

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So it's okay for nonGreeks to wear letters and for Greeks to wear one another's letters? No.

Hayle NO! The same applies.....they are not the other persons letters (Greek or Not)!

DSTCHAOS · #5 12-24-2007, 01:46 PM

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Hayle NO! The same applies.....they are not the other persons letters (Greek or Not)!

Exactly.

I rarely see NPHC orgs hand out event tshirts but the ones I have seen tend to spell out the org name rather than use the symbols.

Unless it is like a community day or step show shirt and every organization's letters are listed.

1908Revelations · #6 12-24-2007, 01:53 PM

Chaos, At my school if there was a community clean up that all student orgs participated in, so all orgs names were listed.

DSTCHAOS · #7 12-24-2007, 02:00 PM

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Chaos, At my school if there was a community clean up that all student orgs participated in, so all orgs names were listed.

That makes sense. I have a step show tshirt with all the orgs names spelled out. God forbid I rock your letters in any way shape or form.

kellybell · #8 12-24-2007, 01:51 PM

I guess that would depend on the school then...it doesn't happen *often* at mine, but it's not unheard of. My boyfriend gives me his set of stitched SigEp letters to wear quite often; it's not a secret to the other guys in his chapter. I think that at some schools, the chapter members just care whether it's a girl that's been around a while vs. if she's some girl the member's been dating for a few weeks. I would hope that if a member from another school happened to see me in them, he wouldn't think that I just grabbed them up randomly

DSTCHAOS · #9 12-24-2007, 02:09 PM

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I guess that would depend on the school then...it doesn't happen *often* at mine, but it's not unheard of. My boyfriend gives me his set of stitched SigEp letters to wear quite often; it's not a secret to the other guys in his chapter. I think that at some schools, the chapter members just care whether it's a girl that's been around a while vs. if she's some girl the member's been dating for a few weeks. I would hope that if a member from another school happened to see me in them, he wouldn't think that I just grabbed them up randomly

It should be based on your organizations' standards. That shouldn't vary by chapter but I acknowledge that it does. It also varies by time period.

I don't think boyfriends and girlfriends should be wearing anything. That should be reserved for husbands and wives who care enough to affiliate with their spouse's organization in that manner. Even then husbands and wives often are not given letters to wear and/or the husbands and wives refuse to wear them.

Corsulian · #10 12-24-2007, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Does it make a difference? Maybe her bother, boyfriend or friend was a SigEp at another school and he gave it to her. Or, maybe she went to a Greek store and had it printed up? (oh my!!!!) Or, maybe she got it at Goodwill because someone disgarded it.

When I was in school, it was typical to trade sweatshirts with what ever fraternity you was your partner in Greek Week or Homecoming. It was no big deal because every chapter on our campus did it, and there were over 3000 in the Greek system at the time.

I also can't tell you the number Phi Tau shirts I got off one of my best friends who kept leaving them in my car.

It's unheard of at GMU to wear another organization's letters (even though we ((Phi Sig)) allow our sweethearts & lavaliered girls to do it, it is common practice only to wear them on special occasions.)

And when I say letters I don't mean printed--I mean the big block embroidered kind.

You at Dartmouth? As I understand it, the Phi Taus rock to their own beat anyway.

33girl · #11 12-26-2007, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Benzgirl

Does it make a difference? Maybe her bother, boyfriend or friend was a SigEp at another school and he gave it to her. Or, maybe she went to a Greek store and had it printed up? (oh my!!!!) Or, maybe she got it at Goodwill because someone disgarded it.

When I was in school, it was typical to trade sweatshirts with what ever fraternity you was your partner in Greek Week or Homecoming. It was no big deal because every chapter on our campus did it, and there were over 3000 in the Greek system at the time.

I also can't tell you the number Phi Tau shirts I got off one of my best friends who kept leaving them in my car.

There's a BIG difference between trading letters for 2 weeks (we did this during Derby Daze for whoever our coaches were that year) and doing the walk of shame looking like crap in a letter shirt that you obviously took from the guy you boffed the night before. Not cool. As for the "brother" excuse - I would think her brother would know if the chapter at her school wasn't down with nonmembers wearing letters.