hey it would probably be a good time to contact your Greek bookstore and tell them to start selling APO paraphernalia
. Especially if your chapter is large already...i know some campus greek bookstores don't wanna carry an org's merchandise coz they wanna make sure there's demand for it and coz they must fulfill a minimum number of orders or something. I believe it took a while before our Greek bookstore carried Alpha Phi Gamma (a growing Asian interest sorority)merchandise (which was only last fall, and they were chartered for like a year already). maybe you and your chapter can send a letter or talk to the bookstore manager.
also you can contact your national headquarters, they probably have a contract thingie with a manufacturer/business that specializes in your merchandise (we do, and like AST has one with Greekgear) and you can contact them.
Hey, if you are from Illinois, you can visit my campus at NIU! Our bookstore has TONS of APO stuff, and you guys actually got the cool cookie jars and this thing filled with candy, and we don't! We asked the bookstore and they said they'll start carrying ours in the fall.
Oh yeah, and there's nothing wrong with making your own stuff--our pledge moms bought these plain plastic picture frames (the 97 cent kind!)and hand painted them with our letters and names n stuff. we have "personalized" baby sippy cups that the actives decorated when we were pledges.
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