Pledge Pin Requirements

[nittanyalum]

I loved wearing mine too, although the colors on our pin went with NOTHING, it seemed like, unfortunately. And I have that family picture, too, Belle! Padded shoulders and all, I wore my pledge pin to Christmas Mass and proudly sported that beautiful red, buff and strange-color-green (on my pin, anyway) pin on my burgundy suit. Lots of hairspray, big bangs. It was sweet.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Zeta13Girl

we can't force our new members on our campus to wear pledge pins. It's considered "hazing".

Yeah, Alpha Delta Pi considers it hazing, too. I still wish we had a happy medium - but when I think of what I'd want, it wouldn't work. *sigh*

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

I loved wearing mine too, although the colors on our pin went with NOTHING, it seemed like, unfortunately. And I have that family picture, too, Belle! Padded shoulders and all, I wore my pledge pin to Christmas Mass and proudly sported that beautiful red, buff and strange-color-green (on my pin, anyway) pin on my burgundy suit. Lots of hairspray, big bangs. It was sweet.

I never even thought about the color bit! Ours is gold, but it's in every photo of me taken during the almost five months I was a pledge!

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I never even thought about the color bit!

Yeah, I didn't at the time, either, because we just wore it all the time so it didn't matter what you were wearing, but now when I see old pictures, I do notice that it clashed - a LOT.

[SWTXBelle]

If memory serves, we wore the official pledge pin with nice clothes - the pledge ribbons all the time.

[FirstAndFinest]

We wore our pledge pins at all times - except when drinking at a bar/club (in those cases, it was on our bras). If we were drinking at a fraternity party or elsewhere on campus, we wore our pins.

Like Honey said, our new members now have the same pin-wearing requirments/restictions as our initiated members.