greek stuff on e-bay - Page 2

BFulton · #16 07-24-2000, 01:07 PM

Sounds like a good topic for those in charge of national and chapter publications (magazines, newsletters, etc.)

etienneSAI · #17 07-24-2000, 01:33 PM

i don't know if there IS a difference between PIN and BADGE. i know that when my pledges have them, they're pins and when sisters have them, they're badges. i've never used the term "pledge badge" it's always "pledge pin". and when you're initiated, you don't "wear your pin" you "wear your badge..."

food for thought...

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

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"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

AXPAlum · #18 07-24-2000, 01:42 PM

Do you guys have the same object as a pin and badge. My fraternity has one that is the pledge pin, and it is totally different from the brotherhood badge. I was just curious if you guys just used the same thing, or do have different ones.

AXPAlum

Corbin Dallas · #19 07-24-2000, 03:02 PM

We have an AM pin, which is like the old pledge pin from LCA and the member badge of Theta Kappa Nu. The member badge is completely different. you can check them all, and other LCA symbols, out at: http://www.lambdachi.org/the_symbols...a_chi_alph.htm

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

etienneSAI · #20 07-24-2000, 03:23 PM

our pledge pin is similar, but seperate to our sisterhood badge. you can see there are big differences.

etienne
sigma alpha iota-the hartt school of music

*okay, can i just say that when i was typing my alpha, it came out as "aloha"...sigma aloha iota...just thought it was funny....

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"red is the color of music and has been since the very earliest of times. the caps of faeries and musicians are well-nigh always red."~*~w.b.yeats

"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck." - Tori Amos

Corbin Dallas · #21 07-24-2000, 03:25 PM

etienneSAI, you naughty girl. you have a bad word in your signature, and the program didn't catch it! That's interesting

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

#22 07-24-2000, 07:54 PM

More on the subject of definitions. I've always been under the impression that a difference existed between a badge and a pin. A badge was for use in formal attire: ceremonies, weddings, interviews, banquets. A badge can be jeweled and sometimes customized. Where a pin (sometimes called a recogition pin, active pin, etc) is normally something simple and is more for every day use from chapter meetings, to work, to class. Both are reserved for initiated memebers and are different then a pledge/candidate/new memeber pin - which is used to designate someone who is still in the learning phase of membership.

That has been my take on it. I'm not sure if its correct or not but that's the way i've always understood. *smile*

equeen · #23 07-25-2000, 12:53 AM

I'm not too sure about the difference, some orgs. call theirs "pins," others "badges." I think they refer to about the same thing. And you're right, they mostly just slip one's mind.

Corbin Dallas · #24 07-25-2000, 09:46 AM

This is the kind of stuff I really hate to see: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI...item=391080113

This guy didn't even have the decency or brains to find out the greek letters. He has about 3 other greek badges for sale, and screwed them all up, SAE as EAE, Iota as I with a circle around it. I mean, you would think he would at least want to get it right so he could sell it easier!

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Steve Corbin
Lambda Chi Alpha
Theta Kappa Chapter
Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech.

Microbiomajor · #25 02-05-2001, 02:14 PM

I went to my national conference last year (KD) and we had a discussion about all of this. They actually told us it is illegal to sell the pins (badges) because they are actually property of the National Organization, and only borrowed by the member. The pins should automatically be returned to the Nat'l Headquarters of the chapter, given to a member, given to a chapter, or guarded within the family.

I know that when a sister decides to resign from the chapter, she is required to turn in her pin, even though she payed for it. If she is no longer a member, she no longer has the right to be in possession of the pin.

It is hard to get E-bay and the like to enforce this, however. I know my sorority has sent letters, though.

imsohappythatiama · #26 02-05-2001, 02:22 PM

Members of my sorority have formed a small, but dedicated national network which aims to bring KKG bages and pledge pins back into the hands of Kappas or Kappa Nationals.

So far, we have "rescued" over 50 pins (several of them dating back to the 1890s), plus other historic Kappa items that we have returned to the National archive/museum.

We sometimes get help from members of other GLOs--a Chi Omega in California found an 1890 KKG badge at an Antique Mart just last week; she notified us through KKG nationals, and we got the pin back; it turns out to be the pin of one of the founders of an early Kappa chapter--very valuable to our history! (So thanks, Chi O!)

Additionally, I have helped and have been helped by Pi Beta Phis, Alpha Phis, Sigma Chis and Kappa Sigs--who have either let me know about a pin they've seen for sale, or vice versa.

This whole endeavor can get quite expensive, as you may be able to guess, and we don't have any "official" support from Nationals. But most of us are Alumna Advisors, and some of us are even National officers. We try our best to find other Kappas who want to buy these badges, or sometimes we donate them to the chapters they originally came from (as award badges), or sometimes we just buy them ourselves (I personally have over 10 KKG badges alone!)

If anyone from any other GLO group would like further information on how we work to get these pins back, please email me at hawkeyehoosier@hotmail.com
I'd be happy to help you out!

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Oh, Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma,
I'm so happy that I am a
Kappa Kappa Kappa Gamma,
Nobody knows . . . how
happy I am!

Hootie · #27 02-05-2001, 03:04 PM

I don't agree with the selling and buying of badges and/or pins. However, at one time I thought I had lost my badge and was considering bidding on one on Ebay. I figured it would be cheaper to bid on a pin, plus it would be a neat feeling knowing that I was wearing someone else's badge who probably love my GLO the same way I did (not to mention recovering it from the hands of a non-Chi Omega).
Luckily for me I found my badge, but I know plenty of sisters who would only bid on one if they knew theirs was gone for good!

shadokat · #28 02-05-2001, 03:11 PM

I know that Pi Beta Phi has a section on their website about this, and ask people if they see their pins on E-bay to notify the headquarters so they can get the pin. I know there are a lot of pins out there for sale, and I've also heard of people who just like to collect greek badges from all organizations. I know one woman, and her boyfriend collects greek badges (he's a brother somewhere, but I can't remember where). In any case, if it offends someone, I think they should go bid on it, get it back, and give it to their national. I've never seen one of my own though.

Tom Earp · #29 02-05-2001, 06:49 PM

I have seen only one Lambda Chi Alpha Badge on E-Bay. I so wanted to buy it it to get off the site. It was tied into a cluster of badges. I could only figure the reason it was there that the Brother died and the estate got it. My badge means everything to me as I went through something different than most to get it.
A badge is something that you earned not given to you because you were good. AS the founder of the local, I designed all of the paraphanalia and there are only two sets left. I have one and the International has one.
I plan to Will mine to the chapter to give to the outstanding associate or the President to hold in trust. That is to make sure that it means as much to them as it did to me. Mine is no longer made as I went FULL OUT!
I think we as Greeks should keep an eye out and get and do what we can as it is meaninful only to us, each Fraternity/ and Sorority,

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)

Tom Earp · #30 02-05-2001, 06:51 PM

I have seen only one Lambda Chi Alpha Badge on E-Bay. I so wanted to buy it it to get off the site. It was tied into a cluster of badges. I could only figure the reason it was there that the Brother died and the estate got it. My badge means everything to me as I went through something different than most to get it.
A badge is something that you earned not given to you because you were good. AS the founder of the local, I designed all of the paraphanalia and there are only two sets left. I have one and the International has one.
I plan to Will mine to the chapter to give to the outstanding associate or the President to hold in trust. That is to make sure that it means as much to them as it did to me. Mine is no longer made as I went FULL OUT!
I think we as Greeks should keep an eye out and get and do what we can as it is meaninful only to us, each Fraternity/ and Sorority,

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Tom Earp LX Z#1
Pittsburg State U. (Kansas)