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Old 01-10-2012, 03:38 PM
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In both APO and ASA pledging, we were allowed to wear our pledge pins with casual attire (thank you, God). One of the sororities had a rule that they had to dress up when wearing their pledge pins - in effect, no jeans for 6 weeks, they had to wear 80s style dress pants or skirts and dressy shoes. And at a school where it rained or snowed 6.5 days out of 7. This was one of the things which caused me to mark them lower on my pref card and made me know I'd never really fit in with them.

If as brothers they will be dressing up regularly, then they should be doing the same as pledges. But forcing them to do it every day just because they have the pledge pin on can be a real turnoff for some people. How about designating one day of the week as dress up day?

I think aephi alum and I are kind of on the same page - pledge pin =/= the badge of the initiated member.

ETA: from what I remember, if guys were wearing t-shirts, they wore their pins over the heart. I don't remember guys putting it on collars of t-shirts. I think that's the part that looks bad, not that you're wearing a pin with a t-shirt.
We were told by a visiting LC that ASA's pledge pin policy was the same as the badge. We had been wearing them at all times "upon request" - since I pledged after forcing pledges to wear pledge pins was considered hazing by some. So, we only wore our pledge pins on badge days (Mondays) and whenever we happened to be dressed up. We still had our pledge ribbons that we could, and did, wear.
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Old 01-11-2012, 02:08 AM
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We were told by a visiting LC that ASA's pledge pin policy was the same as the badge. We had been wearing them at all times "upon request" - since I pledged after forcing pledges to wear pledge pins was considered hazing by some. So, we only wore our pledge pins on badge days (Mondays) and whenever we happened to be dressed up. We still had our pledge ribbons that we could, and did, wear.
Yes, that was one of the changes made when we went to a national program. Wearing the ribbons without the pin was a pain in the ass and resulted in people losing pins all over the place.

We didn't have regular badge days. The weather was too sucky and we were too sensible.
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