Unusual sighting- etiquette of it?

#1 12-12-2008, 09:52 PM

Minding your own business is the way to go. If it's not your own organization, stay out of it.

KSUViolet06 · #2 12-12-2008, 10:16 PM

If it's not my sorority, I tend to mind my own business. It's not my job to be the "letter police."

freeverse · #3 12-13-2008, 12:59 AM

I honestly think it varies by GLO and by person. Perhaps his daughter gave it to him as a gift. When I was little my old babysitter used to give us bags of hand me downs and she always gave us her old sorority sweatshirts. I wore them all the time as "play clothes" not knowing what it even was. I thought it was a logo that stood for something.
Even if this guy was wearing my letters I would not have said anything. Maybe a "oh, who do you know is a member of ABC?" wpuld have been appropriate but that would have been it. I know a lot of people get up in arms about letters but to me it's more about the ritual and crest. It's just fabric to a lot of people.

Tippiechick · #4 12-13-2008, 01:55 AM

Like others have said, mind your own business. Maybe this guy got it at Goodwill because he doesn't have a lot of money and it keeps his head warm... Maybe he liked the letters and didn't know what they meant...

Honestly, who CARES if he's wearing NPC letters? It's a hat.

Maybe you could have been like SouthernSugar and ripped it off his head. LOL.

I think demurring on taking ANY action was and is the best action in cases like this.

DoubleTDG · #5 12-13-2008, 02:55 AM

I would mind your own business. When we did invite gifts to our date party or formal in the the spring, one of the items was a hat that had our letters on it, the first time we just had our letters then the name spelled out, but after the first time we would put very small on the back the name of the party.

deepimpact2 · #6 12-13-2008, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Honestly, who CARES if he's wearing NPC letters? It's a hat.

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I guess I don't understand this thought process because I get pissed when I see someone who is not a member of my organization rocking my letters. Most people that I know feel this way.

SWTXBelle · #7 12-13-2008, 07:51 PM

I would bet he is a father.

PiKA2001 · #8 12-14-2008, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I would bet he is a father.

or post-op

fantASTic · #9 12-13-2008, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by deepimpact2

I guess I don't understand this thought process because I get pissed when I see someone who is not a member of my organization rocking my letters. Most people that I know feel this way.

Here's my take on it...

If you are not Greek, you do not know what the letters mean anyways and you do not care.

If you are Greek, you know that a man is not a member of an NPC sorority and so you know he is not a member.

If you see a woman wearing letters that belong to an NPC sorority, do you REALLY know she is not a member? She could be.

So in the end it really doesn't matter.

deepimpact2 · #10 12-13-2008, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by fantASTic

Here's my take on it...

If you are not Greek, you do not know what the letters mean anyways and you do not care.

If you are Greek, you know that a man is not a member of an NPC sorority and so you know he is not a member.

If you see a woman wearing letters that belong to an NPC sorority, do you REALLY know she is not a member? She could be.

So in the end it really doesn't matter.

If you aren't greek, you shouldn't be wearing letters that represent a greek organization.

If I see a woman wearing my sorority letters, I usually go over to talk to her anyway and I can usually tell when she's a perp.

I have known of incidents where people have literally snatched letters off of a perp.

KSUViolet06 · #11 12-13-2008, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by deepimpact2

I guess I don't understand this thought process because I get pissed when I see someone who is not a member of my organization rocking my letters. Most people that I know feel this way.

Ok. Yes, I'd be concerned if I saw someone who's not a member wearing my letters. But these were not Scandia's letters that she's talking about.

And honestly even if they are yours, what are you going to do, assault the man and demand that he not wear them anymore? Nothing says devotion to your sorority like jail time.

deepimpact2 · #12 12-14-2008, 02:43 AM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Ok. Yes, I'd be concerned if I saw someone who's not a member wearing my letters. But these were not Scandia's letters that she's talking about.

And honestly even if they are yours, what are you going to do, assault the man and demand that he not wear them anymore? Nothing says devotion to your sorority like jail time.

I never said that I personally snatch letters. I don't because I don't invade personal space, but I am quick to call someone out when I realize they are a perp. And I have no problem with doing it.

southernsugar · #13 12-15-2008, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Tippiechick

Honestly, who CARES if he's wearing NPC letters? It's a hat.

Maybe you could have been like SouthernSugar and ripped it off his head. LOL.

Apparently, I was a bit misunderstood. (and I'm never going to live this down, I realize). A guy wearing NPC letters, like everyone has said, isn't going to be confused as a perp. At some campuses, including southern ones, I know sororities give away event shirts/koozies/bright neon hats that just have the letters on them. Now, generally we just wear them to the event, but it doesn't bother me to see something that obviously isn't a misrepresentation of self or a deliberate misrepresentation of that organization's values.

My problem was very specifically with someone not in the sorority who acted as a member of the sorority.

PeppyGPhiB · #14 12-15-2008, 08:05 PM

Do fathers really wear hats with their daughter's sorority name on them? Doesn't seem like something men would do.

The guy was probably homeless and had no idea the GLO was a sorority, and therefore I would've kept my mouth shut. We all know that no one aside from members are supposed to wear our letters, but I'm pretty sure most of our founders cared about us making positive contributions to humanity, and if a hat with my org's letters is helping keep a homeless man's head warm in winter, I believe our founders would be pleased.

33girl · #15 12-16-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Do fathers really wear hats with their daughter's sorority name on them? Doesn't seem like something men would do.

The guy was probably homeless and had no idea the GLO was a sorority, and therefore I would've kept my mouth shut. We all know that no one aside from members are supposed to wear our letters, but I'm pretty sure most of our founders cared about us making positive contributions to humanity, and if a hat with my org's letters is helping keep a homeless man's head warm in winter, I believe our founders would be pleased.

Something tells me that if he'd been homeless and appeared so, Scandia would have included that detail in her post. I am guessing it was a dad who was on his way out and just grabbed the first hat on the kitchen table. He probably wasn't even aware what he had on.

Going back to southern whatever food product it was taking the letters off the car - I have yet to hear, what exactly did she do? Did she take a straightedge and scrape them off a window, or were they a cling half falling off and she just finished the job?