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Old 12-28-2007, 03:35 AM
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Yeah, I've had times where I wanted to say something catty to someone at a party or whatever...but I didn't because it would reflect badly on our chapter. I know our advisers tell us to represent Kappa at all times, and it's TRUE! Our province's director of chapters that if we did something we didn't want the president of KKG or our grandma to see, we shouldn't be doing it. :-)
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Old 12-28-2007, 03:45 AM
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Yeah, I've had times where I wanted to say something catty to someone at a party or whatever...but I didn't because it would reflect badly on our chapter. I know our advisers tell us to represent Kappa at all times, and it's TRUE! Our province's director of chapters that if we did something we didn't want the president of KKG or our grandma to see, we shouldn't be doing it. :-)
Yea, most of the stuff that makes you look bad to nationals also makes you look bad to any guy that actually has respect for women. The only exception is [social] underaged drinking, which is just normal.
A lot of freshman girls like to get hammered drunk at socials and crushes not realizing that they are attracting attention to themselves in a negative light. And everyone knows that rule #92 of wedding crashing is to draw attention to yourself, but on your own terms.
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Old 01-16-2008, 05:46 AM
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unfortunantely shirts/clothing with letters get passed around all the time - i find greek shirts at goodwill/salvation army and friends will buy the ones they find with my letters on them.

basically not everyone treats their letters the same way
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Old 01-16-2008, 12:59 PM
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OTW,

what i meant is either you can sew it yourself or take the shirts somewhere to get the same thing done. and no i wouldn't mention that, that's stupid.
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Old 01-16-2008, 01:02 PM
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and no i wouldn't mention that, that's stupid.
SRSLY??? Maybe as stupid as someone who has already informed us that she is not Greek telling Greeks what they should do with their letters?

Can we please let this thread die (AGAIN) now? The "Embarrsing" title is driving me nuts.
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Old 01-16-2008, 01:33 PM
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alpha i was just giving the people an idea

it's what i did with my competitive cheerleading shirts... no reason you can't do the same thing with greek letter shirts.
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Old 01-16-2008, 01:49 PM
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alpha i was just giving the people an idea

it's what i did with my competitive cheerleading shirts... no reason you can't do the same thing with greek letter shirts.
There are at least 10 threads here about tshirt quilts. We're well aware of the concept.
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Old 01-16-2008, 02:22 PM
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alpha i was just giving the people an idea

it's what i did with my competitive cheerleading shirts... no reason you can't do the same thing with greek letter shirts.
Sweetie just put her on ignore already and stop responding. She's not gonna quit.

And now...Back to the original snark-free posting please!
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Old 10-29-2008, 02:21 PM
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Really though?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oN5EBESvsw

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15 yr old high school student in Norwalk, CT bought an AKA sweatshirt while on a college tour and decided it would be a good idea for her to wear it!! This video takes place after I educated the young woman that she should not/can not/will not "ever" wear something she hasn't earned the right to wear. The young woman tells me that all day people have been telling her not to wear the shirt.....
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Old 10-29-2008, 02:57 PM
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Old 10-29-2008, 04:37 PM
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...she knew she was dead a**ed wrong for it. and apparently everyone else knew it, or else that guy wouldnt have bothered trying to catch her with it on...
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Old 10-29-2008, 06:05 PM
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I actually like that this thread popped up because I have a great story from the weekend.
So there I was talking to one of my guy friends who was manning the door when a group of guys come up.
Justin "Are you on the list?"
Group "No, but we are Greek let us in." (first clue to the perp)
Justin "What fraternity are you in?"
Group "Dude, we are the Triiiiii- DELTS"
Justin and I look at each other
Me "On this campus"
Group "oh duh of course"
Me "You realize that Delta Delta Delta has not been on this campus for eight years and even if it was, that it is a national SORORITY."
Justin breaks out laughing and the guys faces fall. The group kind of shuffles away.

If you are going to perp and someone asks you what campus you are from, never say the one you are currently on or at least do your homework. Maybe they were going for Delta Tau Delta but it still wouldn't have worked.
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Old 11-11-2008, 10:53 AM
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That's really interesting to me... At my campus, I would certainly FLIP OUT (and I have... I ripped the letters off someone's car once knowing they weren't in my sorority) if I saw another girl wearing my letters and she wasn't a member.. but as to guys letters... I own a ton of shirts and jackets from events or rush shirts.. Last year one frat made vineyard vines rush fleeces, which happen to fit most girls I know and be VERY comfortable, and they're a popular item to see on campus.
It's common around here for the guys to give girls they know rush shirts- I own phi delt crest shirts, sig ep crest/logo thing shirts, pi kapp shirts, sigma nu shirts, beta shirts, our locals shirts, ato shirts, k.sig shirts, etc.. Lambda Chi came and dropped of a ton of shirts for every girl in our chapter, kind of a PR thing. I know our fiji shirts do say FIJI instead of their letters, but most groups don't seem to care here.. Granted I'm an ex-social chair and do have good friends in most of those groups, but I can think of only one occasion where I've seen a girl asked not to wear a guys letters (and there was a very good reason for it).
At the same time, I've seen a lot of guys wear our letters around- boyfriends, guyfriends, brothers.
I'm not talking event shirts- those are generally a different catagory. if it says "xyz crush" or "event by xyz" then really, I don't care who wears it. We have a lot of GDI girls who wear the 'girls fight back' shirts that say 'sponsered by xyz(written out) and panhellenic.' and that's fine.
And while I certainly wouldn't wear them if I was looking like crap that day, I wear them pretty often. Of course, I wouldn't wear my own letters on a day I decide to roll out of bed. Saying that, unless I was engaged to a fraternity member or their sweetheart, I would NEVER wear their drop. That will get you in pretty big trouble here.

edited to add: Actually, one thing that is really common with those shirts is when an organization comes to another meeting (frat plegdes serenading us, a group thanking us, someone just trying to get our attention to something going on at our campus, etc) they often wear our letters or make letters for us.. We currently have about five sets of GIANT PAINTED wooden letters in one of our storage closets from different fraternities. They're great to put out during recruitment/homecoming/ (dry) tailgates and such.

As for perps... we have one girl who SWEARS she is a member of our sorority, and tells fraternity guys she is. We recently started making friends with a group and they brought her up as an example of why they weren't too interested to mix. The new class said, "who?" and some of us were like...'she's never, EVER been a member of our organization.' but it still makes it hard to see her on campus.

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Old 11-12-2008, 10:15 AM
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As for perps... we have one girl who SWEARS she is a member of our sorority, and tells fraternity guys she is. We recently started making friends with a group and they brought her up as an example of why they weren't too interested to mix. The new class said, "who?" and some of us were like...'she's never, EVER been a member of our organization.' but it still makes it hard to see her on campus.
could she have transferred to your school and just not have affiliated with your chapter?
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Old 11-12-2008, 09:38 PM
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I've seen a girl who is known to be really sex, drugs, and rock n'roll wearing a shirt of ours one time. Another sorority confronted her about it and she left in a huff, but it was good to know Panhellenic spirit is alive and well.

I guess on the other hand sometimes independents don't understand WHY it's so wrong to wear our letters, and why it makes us mad. It probably just looks like a club to some of them.

I have several fraternity shirts, like XYZ girl shirts and formal shirts. On our campus that's no big deal. I have seen girls wearing their boyfriends' sweatshirts or jerseys, but when I was dating a fraternity guy I was never comfortable doing that because I'd never let him wear mine (not that he'd want to). The only straight letters of his that I wore were on the lavaliere he gave me.

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