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Originally posted by AXPGoBot
How can you take your letters seriously if you vicariously give them out to whoever is given a bid? You don't really know your bids, you might like them, theymight be great people, but that's like meeting someone at orientation and 2 hours later wanting to be their roomate. It's very childish and naive.
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I'm not sure where I said we did that. NMs are allowed to, and encouraged to, order letters with the rest of the chapter when we do a bulk order. They usually arrive before initiation, and the new girls are told that they are permitted to wear them and that we will not be angry with them if they do, but that most of us chose to wait. The night before initiation, each pledge mom (big sister) gives her daughter a set of stitch letters, usually on a sweatshirt (since it's always cold when we're initiating) and her lettered coat. Since the ladies have now fulfilled every aspect of their new member period (which yes, includes teaching of 100+ years of history, local and international, as well as activities, ideals, etc, blah blah blah) they are welcomed to wear letters - all they have left to do is be initiated on Friday night.
I wouldn't consider that vicariously tossing our letters out to everyone. As a chapter we decided no one can wear letters but us - our name must be spelled out on all social shirts, boyfriends and fiancees and husbands cannot wear letters, our sweethearts have shirts that say "Gammie Guys," etc. We don't take our letters lightly, but we also don't violate our international policies, because we like our charter. It looks good on our wall.
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