Did I miss something??

[thetygerlily]

Ugh, yes it's so annoying! Before I started the badge thread I went to the website to poke around and was really shocked. I mean, it's kind of nice that most orgs are on One site now- I love looking at badges. But the "extras" seem so generic and useless. It's like the eBay sellers who call something sorority related because it has one of the org's colors on it. I hope the quality of the badges didn't change.

[KSUViolet06]

Funny you guys brought this up, because the Aphrodite ring and Edwardian amythest ring are listed under our items as well.

Generally speaking, I'm pretty pleased with all of our other HJ accessories and extras though.

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Funny you guys brought this up, because the Aphrodite ring and Edwardian amythest ring are listed under our items as well.

Generally speaking, I'm pretty pleased with all of our other HJ accessories and extras though.

went checking and those two items are listed for Alpha Xi Delta as well. Hmmm... I guess all our rituals and symbols are more similar than I thought :-) .. there are also a number of dangles listed that have no meaning or
no connection to any of our offices.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi

went checking and those two items are listed for Alpha Xi Delta as well. Hmmm... I guess all our rituals and symbols are more similar than I thought :-) .. there are also a number of dangles listed that have no meaning or
no connection to any of our offices.

That aphrodite ring has absolutely nothing to do with our ritual, and as far as I can remember, there's no special significance in a heart to an Alpha Gamma Delta.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by thetygerlily

I hope the quality of the badges didn't change.

I don't think they could get any crappier from when I was initiated in 2002 - however, I bought an antique badge off ebay from when Balfour was doing our badges and it is 1000x better. The gold doesn't look cheap, the ASA letters are actually engraved into the badge, and the pearls are set so much nicer. Bonus that I found one from my chapter that already had a chapter guard welded to it.


We have the horseshoe and the kidney as well. I didn't complain about those, because at least they have letters on them. If I saw someone wearing one, I would still know they were an ASA. I do actually like some of the badge-outline pendants that they have. An ASA would recognize it, but it doesn't shout "I can't let go of college". I have a crest lavaliere that has letters on the back that I wear every day, but the only people who generally ever ask about it are Greeks. A non Greek probably would have no clue what it was.