How do NPC/IFC differ from NPHC on the subject of "Perps"?

[IrishLake]

She was just a kid, in a down and out town. I would have given her more for it. But she bit on the 10 spot right away.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

She was just a kid, in a down and out town. I would have given her more for it. But she bit on the 10 spot right away.

There's definitely a difference between someone deliberately perping your organization and someone like this who needed a jacket, didn't have money and thought the one with your letters was pretty and nice.

[DTD Alum]

I think we (for the most part) feel very strongly about perps. I know a person who joined a local sorority whose nickname is also Theta (the letters of the GLO are Alpha Theta Psi or Phi) and anytime she meets a real Theta she is quick to tell them she is a Theta too. If it was an innocent mistake I wouldn't have a problem with, but she has even admitted she knows exactly what she is doing and it drives me crazy.

[als463]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

There's definitely a difference between someone deliberately perping your organization and someone like this who needed a jacket, didn't have money and thought the one with your letters was pretty and nice.

Someone who "shops" in the lost and found isn't necessarily poor. They are just being weird. I know this because in junior high, when Champion was the big thing, I decided to go "shopping" in the lost and found and found myself a champion sweatshirt that I claimed to be mine. It wasn't. I negated to look at the big black lettering on the tag that spelled out one of my best friend's name on it. I learned a long time ago that "shopping" at the lost and found was not a good idea. Even if you get something from the thrift store, before I was Greek, I would never have picked up a jacket, shirt or hoodie with letters on it, especially if I didn't know what they were. For all I know, I could have been rockin' some fraternity letters.

[Barbie's_Rush]

Originally Posted by als463

Someone who "shops" in the lost and found isn't necessarily poor. They are just being weird. I know this because in junior high, when Champion was the big thing, I decided to go "shopping" in the lost and found and found myself a champion sweatshirt that I claimed to be mine. It wasn't. I negated to look at the big black lettering on the tag that spelled out one of my best friend's name on it. I learned a long time ago that "shopping" at the lost and found was not a good idea. Even if you get something from the thrift store, before I was Greek, I would never have picked up a jacket, shirt or hoodie with letters on it, especially if I didn't know what they were. For all I know, I could have been rockin' some fraternity letters.

Just because you were morally bankrupt in junior high doesn't mean everyone was. It was a poor town and the girl may have been cold and needed a jacket. We don't know. My point is she obviously didn't know or care about the significance of the letters on it. To her it was simply a jacket. That's very different from wearing letters and announcing "Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeee! I'm a Thetaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

[als463]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Just because you were morally bankrupt in junior high doesn't mean everyone was. It was a poor town and the girl may have been cold and needed a jacket. We don't know. My point is she obviously didn't know or care about the significance of the letters on it. To her it was simply a jacket. That's very different from wearing letters and announcing "Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeee! I'm a Thetaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

Hey now...I didn't say I was morally bankrupt. I was a weird kid. My parents wouldn't pay $30. for a sweatshirt with a little "C" on it. Now, when I think back, I can't really blame them, even though $30. for a sweatshirt doesn't seem like much anymore. I agree with what IrishLakes said. I haven't found anyone perping my letters (except that one girl on GC who said she belonged to Phi Mu and AGD, as well as Delta Gamma, I think). I don't think she sounded like she was being rude by giving the girl money for the jacket.

I do have to say, however, I do think it is weird when people want to wear letters that don't belong to them. Even in high school, where only a small number of people even went to college and an even smaller number went Greek, I always knew what sororities and fraternities were. I would have felt weird wearing letters, not knowing if I was representing a men's fraternity or an honor society I did not belong to. That would be just weird. I want to also add, I grew up in a small/ poor town, too. I still wouldn't have done what that young girl did.

[carnation]

Somewhere on GC in the past, I posted about going down the main drag with a tiny and elderly AKA alumna who saw some guys wearing her letters. Three of us had to grab her to keep her from jumping out of a moving car and going after them..you should have heard her screaming at them. She's been in the city chapter here for over 50 years--a super lady.

[als463]

Originally Posted by carnation

Somewhere on GC in the past, I posted about going down the main drag with a tiny and elderly AKA alumna who saw some guys wearing her letters. Three of us had to grab her to keep her from jumping out of a moving car and going after them..you should have heard her screaming at them. She's been in the city chapter here for over 50 years--a super lady.

I bet. Some people get really upset by it. I have a friend who joined Tri-Delta (or she got a bid) and then dropped out. She still wears Delta t-shirts. I wonder how people feel about that. Is that seen the same as perping in your (as in everyone in this thread) eyes? Not sure how I feel about people wearing items after dropping out before or after initiation. I have never really come across too many perps but, then again-I never really ask if they belonged to the organization and when I see a girl wearing fraternity letters, I figure she must be dating some fraternity guy. Maybe I should ask next time. I never thought to do that.