RoeCyris,
You asked about who pays for the shirts; this varies from campus to campus and from chapter to chapter at a given campus. One thing to consider – especially for NPC sororities that are required or encouraged to inform potential new members of financial obligations – what have you already told members, and in the future what will you tell potential new members, about costs / charges for mixers, formals, other events? Will you build the cost for shirts into the general fees, or will they be optional “extras” that members will choose to pay for on an event-by-event basis?
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about – a “cost list,” so to speak, for the NPC sororities at one school. Just an example:
http://www.greeklife.sdes.ucf.edu/PD...FeesFall08.pdf
Another thing to consider about “who pays”: without getting overly nosy, but being realistic, what is the financial situation for the majority of your members? Do a lot of members have to watch their budgets very carefully, work while in school to pay expenses, etc? Or does money truly not matter to nearly everyone in your chapter / on your campus? Most chapters will be somewhere between these extremes, but consider the personal financial implications of shelling out for shirts. Yes, one or two t-shirts a year is probably going to be doable for anyone, but if you are thinking of moving toward lots of shirts, you may not want to get carried away. Especially in uncertain economic times.
One more thing you might want to think about
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why aren’t t-shirts the custom at your school? Would they be seen by most others, Greek and non-Greek, as fun, interesting, “OK” things? Would they be perceived negatively? Someone mentioned North-South differences, but there can be other differences in campus customs and traditions that might affect whether t-shirts would or wouldn't be well-received at your school.
Good luck in exploring the idea.
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